Vehicle Display Control for Selective Intersection Guidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle display systems do not adequately consider conditions for displaying guide marks, leading to potential confusion for vehicle occupants.

Innovation Solution

A display control system that acquires intersection information from a planned travel route and selectively displays animations or static images in front of the vehicle occupant, based on predetermined conditions such as intersection type, visibility, and reliability of position information, to prevent confusion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If guide marks are displayed in a superimposed manner on the road surface, then the vehicle occupant can intuitively grasp the position of the intersection, but the vehicle occupant may become confused due to the displaying of guide marks

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveposition grasp accuracyVSAvoidconfusion of vehicle occupant
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the display parameters (animation type, superimposition position, visibility) based on the intersection category and vehicle state to optimize information presentation while avoiding confusion

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

Different display strategies are applied to different intersection categories (e.g., ordinary intersections vs. complex intersections), providing localized optimization for each scenario

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If animations are displayed for all intersections, then the vehicle occupant can grasp the position of intersections, but the processing load increases and clarity may be reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintersection position informationVSAvoidprocessing load
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and identifies specific intersection categories from the planned travel route, then selectively applies display animations only to appropriate intersection types, removing unnecessary display operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The display control is segmented into different strategies based on intersection category, with ordinary intersections receiving animation display and complex intersections receiving different treatment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12422265B2Display control device for vehicle, display control system for vehicle, vehicle, display control method for vehicle, and non-transitory storage medium storing a program
Publication Date: 2025.09.23 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A display control device for a vehicle, includes: an intersection information acquiring section that acquires, from a planned travel route of a vehicle that is set in advance, information of an intersection through which passage is planned; and an image display section that, if the intersection is not an intersection satisfying a predetermined condition, in a case in which the vehicle approaches the intersection, causes display of an animation that heads toward the intersection in a display region provided in front of a vehicle occupant and in a manner of being superimposed on a foreground, and, if the intersection is an intersection satisfying the predetermined condition, does not cause display of the animation.