SURROUNDING VEHICLE DISPLAY METHOD AND SURROUNDING VEHICLE DISPLAY APPARATUS

• Main Authors: KIMURA, Katsumi, UEKI, Ryusuke, SHIMIZU, Youji, KAWAI, Seiko, YAMAMOTO, Tetsuya
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 23.02.2022
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

A surrounding vehicle display device includes: a surrounding information detection device (3) that obtains information on surroundings of a host vehicle; a virtual image generation unit (16) that uses the information obtained by the surrounding information detection device (3) to generate a virtual image that indicates the surroundings of the host vehicle as being viewed from above the host vehicle; and a controller (10) that starts examination of whether to perform the auto lane change before performing the auto lane change. The controller (10) starts the examination of whether to perform the auto lane change before performing the auto lane change and then makes a display region of the surroundings of the host vehicle on the virtual image wider than a display region before the examination is started.