Patent ID: 11878586
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An information display system displaying information onto a vehicle comprising:
an information display apparatus configured to display image information onto an image display region that is forward of a driver seat of the vehicle; and
a spatial sensing apparatus configured to detect positional information of an instruction made by a driver, on the image display region in a spatial region between the driver seat and the image display region,
wherein an input of the instruction on the image display region made by the driver, or instruction image information corresponding to the instruction displayed in the image display region in response to the positional information of the instruction made by the driver, is detected by the spatial sensing apparatus,
wherein the information display apparatus includes a first display apparatus,
wherein the first display apparatus displays a virtual image to be overlapped with a relatively long-distance view onto a first image region of the forward part of the vehicle by allowing a first region of a windshield glass on the forward part of the driver seat of the vehicle to reflect light generated by a virtual-image optical system,
wherein the virtual-image optical system of the first display apparatus is arranged inside a dashboard between the windshield glass and the driver seat,
wherein the spatial sensing apparatus includes a first spatial sensing apparatus configured to detect the positional information of the instruction on the first image region of the first display apparatus,
wherein the first spatial sensing apparatus is configured to detect a position of an object of the instruction, on a plane that is orthogonal to a depth direction and extends in a vertical direction above the first spatial sensing apparatus to the windshield glass, corresponding to the first image region,
wherein the information display apparatus includes a second display apparatus,
wherein the second display apparatus displays a practical image to be overlapped with a relatively short-distance view onto a second image region lower than the first image region by projecting light generated by a practical-image optical system to scan a second region lower than the first region of the windshield glass on the forward part of the driver seat of the vehicle,
wherein the practical-image optical system of the second display apparatus is arranged inside the dashboard between the windshield glass and the driver seat,
wherein the spatial sensing apparatus includes a second spatial sensing apparatus configured to detect positional information of an instruction on the second image region of the second display apparatus,
wherein the second spatial sensing apparatus is configured to detect a position of an object of the instruction, on a plane that is orthogonal to a depth direction and extends in a vertical direction above the second spatial sensing apparatus to the windshield glass, corresponding to the second image region,
wherein the first spatial sensing apparatus and the second spatial sensing apparatus are arranged in the depth direction in a space between the dashboard and the windshield glass,
wherein the first spatial sensing apparatus and the second spatial sensing apparatus are disposed on an uppermost surface of the dashboard above the instrument panel, the uppermost surface facing the windshield glass, and
wherein sensing directions of the first spatial sensing apparatus and the second spatial sensing apparatus are toward the windshield glass.