Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transmissive information display apparatus for obstacle detection outside a vehicle
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Application No.: US14899752Application Date: 2013-07-05
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Publication No.: US09604573B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Hirokazu Shimizu , Tsutomu Matsubara , Taro Kumagai
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/068524 WO 20130705
- International Announcement: WO2015/001665 WO 20150108
- Main IPC: G08B21/00
- IPC: G08B21/00 ; B60R1/00 ; B60R11/02 ; G08G1/16 ; B60K37/02 ; B60Q9/00 ; B60Q3/04

Abstract:
An information display apparatus includes: an around-the-vehicle sensor 3 that detects an obstacle around a vehicle; a transmissive display apparatus 4 which has a plurality of LEDs 42 disposed inside a vehicle interior structural member, and performs a display by lights of LEDs 42 transmitted through a surface of the structural member and irradiated outside; and a controller 2 that determines a driver's driving operation based on vehicle information about a driving operation, and allows the transmissive display apparatus 4 provided at the structural member present in a direction of a blind spot area in which the obstacle is detected by the around-the-vehicle sensor 3, among the blind spot areas formed by the vehicle interior structural members obstructing the visual field of a driver looking outside the vehicle in the driving operation, to display information on the obstacle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160144785A1 INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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