Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Haruka Iga

Keiichi Nakamura

Yu Tanaka

Yoji Inui

Yoshiyuki Yamada

Atsuo Fukaya

Taketoshi Fujii

A drive assist device includes: a overhead image generating unit that generates a vehicle periphery overhead image; a forward trajectory setting unit that sets a forward trajectory serving as an expected trajectory in the travel direction of the vehicle occurring when the turning based on a calculated steering angle; a reverse trajectory setting unit that sets a reverse trajectory serving as an expected trajectory in the travel direction of the vehicle or in the opposite direction as the travel direction of the vehicle occurring when turning based on a steering angle in the opposite direction as the calculated steering angle; and a image synthesizing unit that generates a drive assist overhead image for display in a monitor by synthesizing the forward trajectory and the reverse trajectory with the vehicle periphery overhead image.

Drive assist device

An input device, wherein the screen () of a display device () is divided into two regions, a region (A) and a region (A), and the icon switch displayed in the region including the position of an invisible pointer (P') is selected. Thus, one of an icon switch () and an icon switch () that are displayed on the screen () is selected at any time. Consequently, the user will no longer have to watch the screen carefully and perform an operation for moving an instruction marker such as a visible pointer to a desired icon switch, for example as in conventional devices. Accordingly, the user can enter a desired instruction in a short time by selecting a desired icon switch in a short time.

Input device, vehicle environment monitoring apparatus, icon switch selection method, and recording medium

Growing community of inventors

Chiryu, Japan

Haruka Iga