US 12,309,314 B2
Display control device, display control method, and recording medium having display control program recorded thereon
Yu Nobara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/901,160.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-153283 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0091894 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 1/72 (2021.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/72469 (2021.01); H04M 1/72484 (2021.01); H04M 1/60 (2006.01); H04M 1/72409 (2021.01)
CPC H04M 1/72484 (2021.01) [G06F 3/16 (2013.01); H04M 1/72469 (2021.01); H04M 1/6091 (2013.01); H04M 1/724098 (2022.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display control device that controls an operation of a touch panel arranged in a vehicle in cooperation with a phone device in the vehicle, the display control device comprising:
an incoming call detection unit that detects an incoming call on the phone device; and
a display control unit that controls the operation of the touch panel,
the display control unit being configured to:
provide, on a display screen of the touch panel, a first display area for displaying each of buttons used to start operating each of predetermined functions and a second display area adjacent to the first display area; and
when the incoming call detection unit detects the incoming call on the phone device,
display, in the second display area, an answer button for instructing the phone device to start a phone call to the incoming call and an ignore button for instructing the phone device not to answer to the incoming call, and
set and display at least a part of the buttons displayed in the first display area to an inoperable state.