US 11,807,299 B2
Display device for a vehicle
Takahiro Hirota, Nukata-gun (JP); Koji Aikawa, Nagoya (JP); and Shigeto Muramatu, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,062.
Application 17/940,062 is a continuation of application No. 16/502,118, filed on Jul. 3, 2019, granted, now 11,479,299.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-140600 (JP), filed on Jul. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0001985 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); G09G 5/38 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2022.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 15/029 (2013.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G02B 27/0179 (2013.01); B60K 2370/1529 (2019.05); B60K 2370/162 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1868 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05); B60R 2300/205 (2013.01); B60R 2300/207 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8086 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0141 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0183 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device for a display mounted on a vehicle, the control device comprising:
a processor configured to:
display, on the display, a first image that represents the vehicle on which the display is mounted and a second image that represents a travel path of the vehicle in a forward direction of the vehicle; and
when the travel path of the vehicle curves, change the second image, wherein
the second image includes a region extending in front of the vehicle in the forward direction of the vehicle, the region bounded by a pair of lines respectively located on left and right sides of the region, the region simulating the travel path of the vehicle,
the processor changes the second image according to a steering angle of a steering wheel of the vehicle to cause the pair of lines to curve in a same direction as a direction in which the steering wheel is turned, and
the processor changes a curvature amount of the pair of lines so that as the steering angle of the steering wheel increases, the curvature amount increases,
the control device further comprising a memory in which is stored a plurality of different second images that vary from each other in curvature amounts and directions of the pair of lines, and wherein
the processor selects the second image, based on the steering angle of the steering wheel, from the plurality of different second images stored in the memory.