US 12,118,260 B2
Vehicle display device
Ayaka Kagami, Inazawa (JP); Atsushi Hanawa, Miyoshi (JP); Soshiro Murata, Nagoya (JP); Hideo Hasegawa, Nagoya (JP); Genshi Kuno, Toyota (JP); Yuta Kikuzaki, Tokyo (JP); Yuu Oomi, Tokyo (JP); Takeshi Yamada, Anjo (JP); Masako Furuta, Kariya (JP); Toshihisa Shimome, Gifu (JP); and Kensuke Sasaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/379,921.
Application 18/379,921 is a continuation of application No. 17/514,445, filed on Oct. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,822,845.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-208932 (JP), filed on Dec. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0036793 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 3/14 (2013.01) [H04N 21/41422 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control method performed by a vehicle display device mounted on a vehicle moving toward a destination, the destination being one area of a plurality of divided areas, each of the plurality of divided areas having a different concept, the vehicle display device comprising a display provided as a window and having a transparent mode and a non-transparent mode, the control method comprising:
analyzing a relationship between objects in a landscape of a traveling route of the vehicle and the concept of the destination,
determining whether the objects in the landscape are related to the concept of the destination,
setting the display to the transparent mode when the vehicle travels near objects determined to be related to the concept of the destination and displaying a video associated with the destination that includes objects in the landscape determined to be related to the concept of the destination, and
setting the display to the non-transparent mode when the vehicle travels near objects related to the concept of another divided area and not the concept of the destination and displaying a video associated with the destination that excludes objects in the landscape determined to be related to the concept of the another divided area and not the concept of the destination.