Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Corporation

Toshiya Takahashi

Hiroshi Sakaguchi

Takeshi Yamamoto

Megumi Itoh

Aki Miake

Masaji Sawada

Katsuhiro Iida

Mitsukazu Okuda

Takeshi Doi

Takahisa Yubisui

Shinichirou Ota

Takeo Abe

Hajime Takezawa

Kazuhiro Saiki

Kyouichi Suzuki

Yoshinori Nagai

Kenji Ohta

Koji Sato

Maki Tomoike

Hitoshi Nohno

Masayuki Kikuchi

Takamitsu Morisaki

Keiichiro Sato

Mika Akada

A display system of the present invention for a vehicle includes plural speed display areas which are capable of being simultaneously displayed, such as a first speed display area and a second speed display area, and a display controlling section causing predetermined one of speed display areas to display speed and for causing other one or more of speed display areas to display information other than speed according to necessity. This allows decrease in false recognition of the speed. With this, a display system for a vehicle can be provided, the display system being able to improve safety of driving by a user by getting rid of false recognition of speed, which is important information for safe driving.

Display system for vehicle and vehicle

An automotive display device, which allows the user to easily recognize the sameness of an information image even if the shape of the image is changed, is realized. An automotive display device () includes a display section () for displaying a vehicle information image including information regarding a vehicle. The vehicle information image is a 3-D image. The automotive display device () further includes an image processing section () for generating a vehicle information image seen from a fixed viewpoint, an image display processing section () for displaying the vehicle information image on the display section (), and an ETC information detection section () that detects a driving condition of the vehicle. The image processing section () rotates the vehicle information image around a predetermined axis and for a predetermined angle, in accordance with ETC information obtained by the ETC information detecting section ().

Automotive display device, vehicle, and display method with 3-D perspective image

A display screen of an onboard display device is disposed so that a speedometer is displayed in front of a driver of a vehicle. When a right-turn instruction is detected, a blinker is displayed and a rightward rear view image outside the vehicle is displayed on the right side of the display screen. When a left-turn instruction is detected, a blinker is displayed and a leftward rear view image outside the vehicle is displayed on the left side of the display screen. Displaying the image in different positions of the display screen according to the right or the left turn instruction facilitates an intuitive determination of a meaning of the image and makes it easier to drive the vehicle.

Onboard display device, vehicle, display method, image display program and recording medium

An onboard display device includes a display section attached to an instrument panel of a vehicle. The section has a second display area and a first display area. The second display area shows at least the speed as vehicle condition images indicating the conditions of the vehicle. The first display area shows a navigation image and other secondary images. The display section measures greater in width than in height with an aspect ratio of 7:3 or greater. The aspect ratio is the width/height ratio of a display area. The onboard display device allows for a visibility-improved simultaneous display of the secondary image, such as a navigation image, and the vehicle condition image, such as a speed display, which presents information on the conditions of the vehicle.

Onboard display device, onboard display system and vehicle

In a condition detection and display system (), an omnidirectional camera (), internal condition sensors (), external condition sensors (), and others detect a condition of a vehicle and surroundings around the vehicle, image data which is a detection result obtained by the aforesaid members and contains an image of the vehicle is selected from an image database (), and the selected image data is displayed on a liquid crystal panel () at a position close to a display of a speedometer.

Condition detection and display system, condition detection and display method, control program for condition detection and display system, and storage medium storing the control program

A liquid crystal display device () includes mean value computing sections () and an optical intensity regulation section (). The mean value computing section () outputs a mean luminance level (A) for the pixels forming an image display produced in a driver seat display area (). The mean value computing section () outputs a mean luminance level (A) for the pixels forming an image display produced in a front passenger seat display area (). The optical intensity regulation section () controls (regulates) the output optical intensity of backlights () according to the mean luminance level (A) and the mean luminance level (A). As a result, the luminance of the image display in the front passenger seat display area () is further limited than the luminance of the image display in the driver seat display area (). The control ensures high visibility of image displays for the driver.

Display device, method of controlling same, computer program for controlling same, and computer program storage medium

A display section displays a speedometer having a substantially circular shape on an outer circumference of which a speed scale is provided. Then, that point on the outer circumference of the speedometer which indicates a speed at a moment is calculated. Further a speed that is attained at a given time period (e.g. 0.5 second) after the moment if the speed is increased at an acceleration at the moment is calculated. An arc-shaped pointer is displayed, the arc-shaped pointer passing (i) the calculated point of the speed scale, (ii) a middle point between the calculated point of the speed scale and a center of the speedometer, and (iii) the center of the speedometer. With this arrangement, a display device displaying the speedometer allows a driver to easily recognize the speed and an amount of a change therein (i.e. acceleration).

Display device, vehicle, method for displaying, program for displaying and recording medium of same

There is provided a system for showing a multi-directional image of surroundings of transportation device requiring a manual maneuver, when starting the transportation device in a parked state (stop state). The surroundings exhibiting system is constituted by an omnidirectional camera, an ignition instruction detection sensor, a control section including a CPU and a frame memory, and a liquid crystal panel. The omnidirectional camera captures an omnidirectional image of the surroundings around the transportation device in synchronization with a driver's ignition instruction detected by the ignition instruction detection sensor. Further, the captured image data is temporally stored in the frame memory, and the stored image data is sequentially transmitted to the liquid crystal panel so as to be displayed thereon.

Surroundings exhibiting system and surroundings exhibiting method

Featured is a device for generating a 3-D model of a target object detects size, position, and direction of the target object in an input image. The device calculates the position of each vertex of a 3-D rough geometric model projected onto a 2-D plane in the detected size, position, and direction, as well as onto a 2-D plane in a predetermined size, position, and direction. The device also modifies the input image based on a correspondence relationship between the position of each vertex of the 3-D rough geometric model calculated by the first calculation means and the position of each vertex of the 3-D rough geometric model calculated by the second calculation means to generate a texture images and maps the texture image to the 3-D rough geometric model.

Three-dimensional model generation device, three-dimensional model generation method, and recording medium for storing the three-dimensional model generation method

An image processing device for generating a 3-D model image of a target object included in an input image, comprises a face image input means for inputting a face image; a 3-D model input means for inputting one or a plurality of 3-D models for each of a plurality of parts; a 3-D model selection means for selecting a 3-D model for an arbitrary part of the plurality of parts based on an instruction input by an operator; a face image mapping means for mapping the face image input via the face image input means to the 3-D model selected by the 3-D model selection means and for displaying the mapped 3-D model; and an image generation means for generating a 3-D still image using the 3-D model selected by the 3-D model selection means and the face image input by the face image input means.

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Toshiya Takahashi