Display device

Abstract

A display device includes a camera for capturing an image around a vehicle body; a monitor provided in a vehicle interior; and a display control unit for controlling a display of the monitor. The monitor has a rectangle-shaped display face, and is supported switchably between a vertically elongated posture and a horizontally elongated posture. When the monitor is switched to the vertically elongated posture, based on an image captured by the camera, the display control unit displays a top view image of a road surface around the vehicle body seen from above on the monitor.

1 . A display device comprising: a right side camera for capturing the road surface on a right side of the vehicle body; a left side camera for capturing the road surface on a left side of the vehicle body; a monitor provided in a vehicle interior; and a display control unit for controlling a display on the monitor,
 the monitor having a rectangle-shaped display face and being supported switchably between a horizontally elongated posture as a standard posture and a right rotation posture which is the vertically elongated posture obtained by rotating the monitor in the standard posture to the right in which a right end side of the monitor is moved downward, or between the standard posture and a left rotation posture which is the vertically elongated posture obtained by rotating the monitor in the standard posture to the left in which a left end side of the monitor is moved downward, and   the display control unit being configured to perform a processing of a side image display mode in which: a standard image is displayed, when the monitor is in the standard posture; an image captured by the right side camera is displayed on the monitor as the top view image, when the monitor is switched from the standard posture to the right rotation posture; and an image captured by the left side camera is displayed on the monitor as the top view image, when the monitor is switched from the standard posture to the left rotation posture.   
     
     
         2 . The display device according to  claim 1 ,
 further comprising a front camera for capturing an image forward of the vehicle body,   wherein the display control unit is configured to perform a processing of a forward image display mode in which an image captured by the front camera is displayed on the monitor as the standard image.   
     
     
         3 . The display device according to  claim 1 ,
 further comprising a rear camera for capturing an image rearward of the vehicle body,   wherein the display control unit is configured to perform a processing of a rearward image display mode in which an image captured by the rear camera is displayed on the monitor as the standard image.   
     
     
         4 . The display device according to  claim 1 ,
 further comprising a navigation system for acquiring a position of the vehicle body as position information represented by the terrestrial longitude and latitude and generating a navigation image in which a position specified by the acquired position information is indicated on a corresponding map,   wherein the display control unit is configured to perform a processing of a navigation image display mode in which the navigation image is displayed as the standard image.   
     
     
         5 . The display device according to  claim 1 ,
 further comprising: a front camera for capturing an image forward of the vehicle body; a rear camera for capturing an image rearward of the vehicle body; and a shift position sensor for detecting a shift position of a transmission device of the vehicle body,   wherein the display control unit is configured to perform a processing of a forward image display mode in which an image captured by the front camera is displayed on the monitor as the standard image, and a processing of a rearward image display mode in which an image captured by the rear camera is displayed on the monitor as the standard image, when the forward image display mode is performed and the shift position sensor detects that the shift position is operated to a reverse position.