US 11,807,097 B2
In-vehicle terminal device and display method for in-vehicle display
Yoshihiro Oe, Kawasaki (JP); Kazuya Nishimura, Okazaki (JP); Jun Goto, Toyota (JP); and Hirofumi Kamimaru, Fukuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/817,779.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-064899 (JP), filed on Mar. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0307381 A1, Oct. 1, 2020
Int. Cl. B60K 37/02 (2006.01); B60N 2/02 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01)
CPC B60K 37/02 (2013.01) [B60N 2/0248 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); B60K 2370/182 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05); B60K 2370/592 (2019.05); B60K 2370/67 (2019.05)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-vehicle terminal device that is able to perform communication with a server device, the in-vehicle terminal device comprising:
an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of a user who boards a vehicle;
a communication unit configured to transmit the identification information of the user to the server device and receive arrangement information of a plurality of display elements of an in-vehicle display corresponding to the identification information of the user transmitted from the server device; and
a setting unit configured to decide an arrangement of the display elements of the in-vehicle display according to an arrangement criterion based on vehicle type information of the vehicle using the arrangement information of the display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user,
wherein the vehicle type information indicates a particular vehicle out of a plurality of vehicles that each have a different shape or size for the in-vehicle display that displays the display elements,
wherein the setting unit does not display at least one display element of the display elements when a shape and size of a display for a first particular vehicle is smaller than a shape and size of a display for a second particular vehicle, and
wherein when a number of display elements shown in the arrangement information exceeds a number of displayable display elements determined in the arrangement criterion based on the vehicle type information, the setting unit selects the display elements shown in the arrangement information based on a priority of each display element.