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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2013
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information display apparatus includes: an around-the-vehicle sensorthat detects an obstacle around a vehicle; a transmissive display apparatuswhich has a plurality of LEDsdisposed inside a vehicle interior structural member, and performs a display by lights of LEDstransmitted through a surface of the structural member and irradiated outside; and a controllerthat determines a driver's driving operation based on vehicle information about a driving operation, and allows the transmissive display apparatusprovided 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, 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.