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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2022
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuki Kuzu, Tokyo, JP;

Koki Doi, Aichi, JP;

Masakazu Nakazawa, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/002 (2013.01); B60K 35/00 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); B60K 2370/1529 (2019.05); B60K 2370/166 (2019.05); B60K 2370/167 (2019.05); B60K 2370/186 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1868 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1876 (2019.05); B60K 2370/194 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05); B60K 2370/736 (2019.05); B60Q 2300/23 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/40 (2013.01); B60W 2420/52 (2013.01); B60W 2420/54 (2013.01); B60W 2540/225 (2020.02); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01); G09G 2380/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control method is performed by an information display system displaying information on one or more display units included in a vehicle. The information display system executes guidance processing for guiding a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle toward a display unit which is not in the line of sight. The control method including: obtaining vicinity information indicating a state of vicinity of the vehicle from a device outside the vehicle; determining whether or not the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity indicated in the vicinity information than the information displayed on the one or more display units; and executing control for suppressing the guidance processing when it is determined that the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity than the information displayed on the one or more display units.


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