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

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle display control apparatus comprising:
a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect a line of sight of a driver;
a visual field estimation unit configured to estimate a visual field of the driver from the detected line of sight; and
a display controller configured to control 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 visual field estimation unit is configured to estimate a predetermined range around a center of the line of sight of the driver as the visual field of the driver;
the display controller is configured to change 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;
the visual field estimation unit is configured to estimate a first visual field that is a range of a central visual field of the driver; and
the display controller is configured to
display the display information in a mode including character information in a case where the display unit is present inside the first visual field, and
display 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.