Patent ID: 11932110
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. An information provision system mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle being an automated driving vehicle that performs automated driving, and comprising:
a visual device configured to visually provide information to an occupant of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the visual device, wherein the controller is further configured to:
cause the visual device to provide first information in a first period; and
cause the visual device to provide second information in a second period later than the first period, the second information being different from the first information in at least one of a content, a type, a purpose, and a meaning, wherein

at least one of a luminance and a saturation of the visual device in the second period is different than in the first period, and
one of the first information and the second information is information demanding of a driver of the vehicle to grab a steering wheel during the automated driving, and another of the first information and the second information is information notifying that the driver is allowed to get hands off of the steering wheel during the automated driving,
the visual device includes a luminescent device having a plurality of LEDs and a display panel, the luminescent device represents different information by emitting light in different colors, the plurality of LEDs of the luminescent device are arranged so as to surround the display panel, and
the controller is configured to set at least one of a luminance and a saturation of the visual device in at least a part of the second period to be higher than that in the first period.