Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Chikao Nagasaka

Yoshimasa Kunimatsu

Masato Nishikawa

Satoshi Mori

Hiroki Iwasa

Toshiyuki Isogai

Toru Nakamura

Masaki Hayashi

Hisashi Aoki

Hiroshi Tsuge

Yasuhiro Fujioka

Makoto Shibahara

Shigeru Kato

Masuyuki Ueda

Noriyasu Syamoto

Minoru Morikawa

Yoshihisa Hirano

Shinji Kishida

Naoki Kamiya

Junichi Nakaho

Hiroyuki Kato

Tatsushi Kubota

Atsushi Mizutani

Mitsuaki Katsuno

Akinori Fujiwara

Tsutomu Muraoka

Motonobu Sugiura

Susumu Mega

Toshio Gyoda

Kouichi Masamura

Harumi Doke

Tokuhiro Amano

Kyozo Ohmi

Kazuyoshi Kato

Takeshi Baba

Michimasa Ito

Hiroshi Kishi

Hirofumi Ohno

Yoshihiro Ohkura

Shinichi Irifune

Syozi Ishida

The present invention is to provide a monitor display control apparatus and a monitor display control method, in which ease of operation of scrolling a map image can be improved with an intention of an operator being reflected at the time of scrolling the map image. A value Rcorresponding to the square of a distance up to a current position centering on a reference position is operated on the basis of output voltages of potentiometers detecting a tilted position of an operating rod. In a control unit, a scrolling speed and a scale factor of the map image displayed on a display screen of a monitor television are varied in accordance with a signal Uincluding information on an amount of displacement of the operating rod from the reference position.

Monitor display control apparatus and monitor display control method

A screen operating device having good operability is obtained. When a push switch is pressed via a sheet switch within a predetermined time from a finger touching the sheet switch, a click signal is received within a predetermined time from receipt of a touch signal. After receipt of this touch signal, if a click signal is received within a predetermined time, buttons other than a predetermined selection buttonare not displayed on a screen of a monitor device, and processing corresponding to a label displayed on the selection buttonis carried out. In this way, a specific processing, such as a processing having a high frequency of use or the like, can be carried out rapidly.

Screen operating device for a vehicle

A car-mounted device control system is obtained which can prevent or lessen erroneous operation of operating portions, switches, and the like during rotation of a steering wheel. When a CPUstarts up a function switching program from a storage mediumon the basis of an inputted touch signal, a present center control unitcompares a comparative rotational position Rread from the storage mediumand a rotational position detection signal R from a steering angle sensor. As a result, when the rotational position detection signal R exceeds the comparative rotational position R, a touch signal and a click signal are cancelled. Thus, inadvertent switching of functions due to a body touching a controllerwhile a steering wheelis rotated can be prevented.

Car-mounted device control system

In a state in which any one of selection buttons is selected (state in which a color is reversed), a touch panel in a controller is operated, and, the selected state of the selection button is released when an operation signal from the above controller is corresponding to a moving trajectory from a gray zone to another gray zone through a cancellation zone. Thereby, unnatural feeling at operation caused by distance between a finger position on the touch panel of the controller and a position of the selection button in the selected state is reduced or eliminated.

Display screen operation device

A touch-operation guide shape is formed on an input pad for inputting a touch operation by variably deforming the surface of the input pad, forming grooves or the like to enable a user to recognize the operation position on the input pad through finger touch. In addition, an image representing the touch-operation guide shape is displayed on a menu frame of a display together with selection items, whereby the corresponding position on the input pad can be recognized on the screen of the display.

Touch-operating input device, display system, and touch-operation assisting method for touch-operating input device

A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.

Display operating system

A vehicle engine starting apparatus has an engine start switch, a display device and a microcomputer. The display device shows the location of the start switch. The microcomputer identifies a specific signal, and controls the display device in accordance with the result of the identification executed by the microcomputer.

Vehicle engine starting apparatus

A vehicular remote control apparatus warns a driver when the driver moves from the inside of a vehicle to the outside of the vehicle while an engine is operating. The vehicular remote control apparatus is located inside the vehicle and includes a transmitter-receiver for generating a first request signal and a portable device for generating a transmission signal in response to the first request signal and transmitting the transmission signal to the transmitter-receiver. The first request signal is transmitted to outside the vehicle. The transmitter-receiver includes a determining device for determining whether the engine is operating and a warning signal transmission device for generating a first warning signal if the engine is operating when receiving the transmission signal and transmitting the first warning signal to the portable device located outside the vehicle. The portable device includes a warning device for giving a warning when the portable device receives the first warning signal.

Vehicular remote control apparatus and engine operation warning method

A device controller is provided which allows a vehicle occupant to confirm a device to be operated without looking an operation section. When a controller of a microswitch indicates a device such as a window regulator or a sun roof, a control circuit feeds a motion confirmation signal to a corresponding device such as a right-hand front door ECU and a roof ECU. A door glass, a sliding roof or the like then reciprocate slightly (i.e., in an amount that is enough for the vehicle occupant to visually confirm the reciprocation) via a window regulator driving circuit, a sun roof driving circuit or the like. The vehicle occupant can thereby confirm a device to be operated by the operation section without looking an operation section.

Device controller

A transmission control device of a vehicle has a shifting body and detects the operating state of the shifting body. The transmission control device shifts the connecting state of the transmission based on the detection result. A parking lock state releasing apparatus for the vehicle includes a releasing switch, which is located in a passenger compartment. An ignition drive device generates gas by causing ignition in response to operation of the releasing switch. The parking lock state of the transmission is changed to the release state using the pressure of the gas.

Parking lock releasing device

A shift device that enables optimally operation. The shift device is provided in a vehicle including a transmission and shifts a shift range of the transmission. The shift device includes a shift operation unit, a controller, and a light emitting device. The shift operation unit is connected to the transmission of the vehicle and shifts the shift range of the transmission. The controller determines whether the shift range of the transmission should be shifted in accordance with a driving environment and generates a shift instruction signal when determining that the shift range of the transmission should be shifted. The light emitting device gives a notification for operation of the shift operation unit in accordance with the shift instruction signal.

Shift device

The present invention provides a touch control position determining method which allows the touch control position to be determined precisely regardless of the modes of control. When a touch control is made on an input pad, it is confirmed whether or not the upper and lower vertical position detecting lines are in the non-detected state in which infrared rays are not intercepted to determine whether the touch control position is located at the upper side, the center or the lower side (Steps through ). Next, it is confirmed whether or not the right and next horizontal position detecting lines are in the non-detected state to determine whether the touch control position along the horizontal direction is located at the left side, the center or the right side (Steps through ). Thus, the touch control position in the vertical and horizontal directions is determined and the determination result is outputted (Step ).

Touch control position determining method control pad

A speedometer for a vehicle capable of displaying a vehicle speed and a traveling distance highly accurately and of providing highly accurate speed information to a system utilizing the speed information is provided. A speedometer is connected to a navigation device that periodically corrects corrected data of a traveling distance per a pulse on the basis of a GPS signal and a vehicle speed pulse signal from a vehicle speed sensor, and outputs the corrected data to a navigation correction information data storage section of the speedometer. A data switching section outputs to a speed computation section the corrected traveling distance data per a pulse that is stored in the navigation correction information data storage section.

Vehicle speedometer

A vehicle transmission controller controls switching of the gear position of a transmission. The controller has a shift lever and an actuator. The shift lever is manipulated to select a gear position of the transmission. The actuator actuates the transmission to switch the gear position in accordance with a manipulation of the manipulator. The actuator switches the transmission to the gear position selected by the manipulator. The actuator switches the transmission to a predetermined gear position from the gear position selected by the manipulator when the vehicle satisfies predetermined conditions.

Vehicle transmission controller

A control apparatus for increasing the reliability of the range shifting of the transmission based on the operation of a shift lever. Only when a shift permission switch is operated by a driver and the shift lever is operated does a determination circuit validate the operation of the shift lever. When the shift permission switch is not operated, the determination circuit does not shift the range of the transmission even when the shift lever is moved.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Chikao Nagasaka