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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:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 05, 2013
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hirokazu Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;

Tsutomu Matsubara, Tokyo, JP;

Taro Kumagai, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60K 37/02 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60Q 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B60K 37/02 (2013.01); B60Q 9/008 (2013.01); B60R 11/02 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01); G08G 1/167 (2013.01); B60Q 3/044 (2013.01); B60R 2300/202 (2013.01);
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.


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