Patent ID: 11947721
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A display processing method comprising:
detecting a line of sight of a driver;
estimating a visual field of the driver from the detected line of sight; and
controlling display information displayed on a display unit of a vehicle based on a positional relationship between the estimated visual field and the display unit, wherein
the method further comprises:
estimating a predetermined range around a center of the line of sight of the driver as the visual field of the driver,
changing a mode of the display information based on a positional relationship between the center of the line of sight of the driver and the display unit in a case where the display unit is present inside the estimated visual field of the driver,
estimating a first visual field that is a range of a central visual field of the driver,
displaying the display information in a mode including character information in a case where the display unit is present inside the first visual field, and
displaying the display information in a mode not including the character information in a case where the display unit is present outside the first visual field.