US 12,275,304 B2
Image display control device, image display control method, and computer-readable storage medium
Ryota Hamabe, Nisshin (JP); Keigo Hori, Toyota (JP); Takahiro Hirota, Nukata-gun (JP); and Yoshinori Murata, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/888,234.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-140173 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0069560 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 35/00 (2024.01); B60K 35/10 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 35/60 (2024.01); B60K 35/81 (2024.01)
CPC B60K 35/00 (2013.01) [B60K 35/10 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 35/60 (2024.01); B60K 35/81 (2024.01); B60K 2360/1446 (2024.01); B60K 2360/168 (2024.01); B60K 2360/782 (2024.01); B60K 2360/785 (2024.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image display control device comprising:
an Electronic Control Unit including a processor that is configured to cause any image page among a plurality of displayable image pages to be displayed at a meter panel display that is installed at an instrument panel of a vehicle; and
a head-up display (HUD) configured to project images onto a display region of a windshield glass of the vehicle,
wherein the processor of the Electronic Control Unit is further configured to:
(a) in a case in which a total number of the plurality of displayable image pages is equal to or less than a predetermined value, (a1) cause the HUD to display a first page indicator onto the display region of the windshield glass of the vehicle, the first page indicator including a same number of first symbols as the total number of the plurality of displayable image pages, and (a2) cause one of the first symbols that is at a page position corresponding to an image page displayed at the meter panel display to be displayed in a manner different from a manner in which remaining ones of the first symbols are displayed; and
(b) in a case in which the total number of the plurality of displayable image pages exceeds the predetermined value, (b1) cause the HUD to display a second page indicator onto the display region of the windshield glass of the vehicle instead of causing the first page indicator having the first symbols to be displayed onto the display region of the windshield glass of the vehicle, the second page indicator including a strip-shaped second symbol, and (b2) cause display of a marking that specifies, on the strip-shaped second symbol, the page position of the image page displayed at the meter panel display, with respect to the total number of the plurality of displayable image pages.