VEHICULAR CONTROL APPARATUS AND SIDE-MIRRORLESS VEHICLE

• Main Authors: SHIBAUCHI TSUBASA, URUSHIZAKI NAOYUKI, OSHIDA KEI, HIROOKA CHIKAYOSHI, MOGI YUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.09.2021
• 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; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

To reduce the power consumption of image display without significantly deteriorating a driving support function.SOLUTION: A vehicular control apparatus includes: peripheral image provision means which takes an image of the periphery of a vehicle and provides it to a driver; detection means which detects the driver's steering; and estimation means which estimates the driver's visual line direction. The peripheral image provision means includes: left display means which is arranged on the left side of the vehicle and displays an image of the left-side rearward area of the vehicle; right display means which is arranged on the right side of the vehicle and displays an image of the right-side rearward area of the vehicle; and control means which executes low power control to reduce the power consumption of either the left display means or the right display means on the basis of the direction of the steering detected by the detection means and the visual line direction estimated by the estimation means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 【課題】運転支援機能を大きく低下することなく、画像表示の消費電力を削減する。【解決手段】車両の周辺の画像を撮影して運転者に提供する周辺画像提供手段と、前記運転者の操舵を検知する検知手段と、前記運転者の視線方向を推定する推定手段と、を備え、前記周辺画像提供手段は、前記車両の左側に配置され、前記車両の左側方後方の画像を表示する左表示手段と、前記車両の右側に配置され、前記車両の右側方後方の画像を表示する右表示手段と、前記検知手段が検知した前記操舵の方向と前記推定手段が推定した前記視線方向とに基づいて、前記左表示手段又は前記右表示手段の一方の消費電力を低下させる低電力制御を実行する制御手段と、を備える。【選択図】図７