US 12,139,067 B2
Vehicular drawing device
Fumihiko Mouri, Owariasahi (JP); and Kentaro Mori, Nissin (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP); and STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP); and STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/053,758.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-187885 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0150422 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/34 (2006.01); B60Q 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/34 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/12 (2013.01); B60Q 2400/50 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular drawing device configured to be installed in a vehicle, the vehicular drawing device comprising a processor configured to draw, using light, an indication display with a predetermined shape on a road surface in a direction of travel of the vehicle, wherein
the indication display includes a start-traveling display that is drawn at a time of starting traveling, and a turn indication display that is drawn when a turn indicator switch is turned on and the direction of travel is to be changed, and
the processor is configured to, in response to the turn indicator switch being turned on at the time of starting traveling, change the start-traveling display to a further start-traveling display having a degree of inconspicuousness different from that of the start-traveling display, and draw the turn indication display and the further start-traveling display at a same time.