Patent Grant
10109258
This invention relates to an information presentation device and an information presentation method for displaying a presentation object (for example, an icon, a character, a map, a video, etc.), for example, on a display of a car-navigation device, or the like.
In an information presentation device disclosed in Patent Document 1 shown below, a visual line of a vehicle driver is detected, so that an attention object on which the driver is paying an attention, is specified and information corresponding to the type of the attention object is displayed.
This makes it possible to properly provide information that the driver requires.
In an information presentation device disclosed in Patent Document 2 shown below, there is provided means for detecting, as a user's state, motion of the visual line of the user, so that, for example, a state where the visual line of the user is directed to the outside of the screen, a state where the waveform of his/her twinkling becomes a moderate form, and a state where eyeball components rapidly decrease, are detected.
This information presentation device, when detected the above-described state, judges to be at the time it is allowed to display information on a screen, to thereby determine a display position of the information on the basis of a relationship between a state of windows arranged on the screen and a point of attention of the user, and displays that information.
This makes it possible to reduce a risk of overlooking without interfering with the user's concentration on his/her operation.
Since the conventional information presentation devices are configured as described above, in the case of Patent Document 1, although it is possible to properly provide the information that the driver requires, it is unable to adjust an amount of the information upon understanding of the recognition degree of the user for a presentation object. Thus, because of too much information, there is a problem of causing overlooking of information or troublesomeness thereon in some cases.
Further, in the case of Patent Document 2, although it is possible to judge when information is to be presented, from the motion of the visual line of the user, it is unable, like Patent Document 1, to adjust an amount of the information upon understanding of the recognition degree of the user for a presentation object. Thus, because of too much information, there is a problem of causing overlooking of information or troublesomeness thereon in some cases.
This invention has been made to solve the problems as described above, and an object thereof is to provide an information presentation device and an information presentation method capable of suppressing too much information presentations to thereby reduce troublesomeness due to presentation of information.
An information presentation device according to the invention is that in which a recognition-degree determination processor is provided that makes a comparison between an attention time during which a user is paying an attention on a presentation object and a recognition necessary time having been determined depending on a content of the presentation object, and determines from a result of that comparison, a recognition degree of the user for the presentation object, so that a presentation processor presents the presentation object in a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the recognition-degree determination processor.
According to the invention, the recognition-degree determination processor is provided that makes a comparison between an attention time during which a user is paying an attention on a presentation object and a recognition necessary time having been determined depending on a content of the presentation object, and determines from a result of that comparison, a recognition degree of the user for the presentation object, and the presentation processor is configured to present the presentation object in a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the recognition-degree determination processor. Thus, there is produced an effect that it is possible to suppress too much information presentations to thereby reduce troublesomeness due to presentation of information.
Hereinafter, for illustrating the invention in more detail, embodiments for carrying out the invention will be described in accordance with the accompanying drawings.
Embodiment 1
In
A visual-line detection unit 2 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of analyzing the image data outputted from the visual-line measuring camera 1 to thereby detect the visual line of the user.
A presentation-information acquiring unit 3 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of acquiring from an application, presentation information indicative of, for example, a type, a display area (display position), a size, a color, a timing, an expression mode of animation, an importance degree and the like, with respect to a presentation object (for example, an icon, a character, a map, a video, etc.) currently displayed by a display processing unit 9 or the presentation object that will be displayed on the display processing unit 9.
An attention-time measuring unit 4 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of: specifying from the visual line detected by the visual-line detection unit 2, an attention area that is an area that the user is looking at; and measuring an attention time T that is a time period during which the attention area is overlapping with a display area indicated by the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3.
A minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 is configured with a storage device, such as, for example, a RAM or a hard disk, and is storing therein a table in which a correspondence relationship is shown between a type of a presentation object and a minimum recognition-necessary time (minimum necessary time for recognizing the content of the presentation object).
A minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of referring to the table stored by the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 to thereby specify a minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin corresponding to the type of the presentation object indicated by the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3.
A user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of: making a comparison between the attention time T measured by the attention-time measuring unit 4 with the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin specified by the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6; and determining from the result of that comparison, a recognition degree of the user for the presentation object. Note that the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 constitutes a recognition-degree recognition processor.
A presentation-mode selecting unit 8 is configured, for example, with a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of: displaying on the display processing unit 9, the presentation object in a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7; and outputting audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to an audio output unit 10.
The display processing unit 9 is configured, for example, with an LCD display or the like, and displays the presentation object on a screen under control of the presentation-mode selecting unit 8.
The audio output unit 10 is configured, for example, with a speaker or the like, and outputs a sound/voice according to the audio data outputted from the presentation-mode selecting unit 8.
Note that a presentation processor is constituted by the presentation-mode selecting unit 8, the display processing unit 9 and the audio output unit 10.
In
For example, in the case of the information presentation device a part of which (the visual-line detection unit 2, the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the attention-time measuring unit 4, the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5, the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 and the presentation-mode selecting unit 8) is configured by a computer, it suffices to establish the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 on an internal memory or an external memory of the computer; to store in the memory of the computer, programs in which written are processing details of the visual-line detection unit 2, the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the attention-time measuring unit 4, the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 and the presentation-mode selecting unit 8; and to cause a CPU of the computer to execute the programs stored in the memory.
Next, operations will be described.
In Embodiment 1, it is assumed that the information presentation device is installed in a vehicle, and a HUD (Head-Up Display), a display of a car-navigation device and an instrumental panel each have a function of the display processing unit 9.
The visual-line measuring camera 1 captures the visual-line detection image that is an image to be used in detection of the visual line of the user, and outputs the image data of the visual-line detection image to the visual-line detection unit 2 (Step ST1 in
The visual-line detection unit 2, at every time it receives the image data of the visual-line detection image from the visual-line measuring camera 1, analyzes that image data to thereby detect the visual line of the user (Step ST2).
The processing of analyzing the image data to detect the visual line of the user is itself a publicly known technique, so that its detailed description is omitted here.
Note that, as the detection result of the visual line of the user, for example, a two-dimensional coordinate (an XY coordinate in a plane on which the HUD, the display of the car-navigation device and the instrument panel are arranged) of a point that the user is looking at (a point of attention), or a three-dimensional coordinate (an XYZ coordinate in a space in which the HUD, the display of the car-navigation device and the instrument panel are arranged) of a point that the user is looking at (a point of attention), is outputted to the attention-time measuring unit 4 in a time-series manner.
The presentation-information acquiring unit 3 acquires from an application, the presentation information indicative of, for example, a type, a display area (display position), a size, a color, a timing, an expression mode of animation, an importance degree and the like, with respect to the presentation object currently displayed by the display processing unit 9 or the presentation object that will be displayed on the display processing unit 9, and outputs the presentation information to the attention-time measuring unit 4 and the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 (Step ST3).
The attention-time measuring unit 4 specifies from the detection result of the visual line by the visual-line detection unit 2, the attention area that is an area that the user is looking at.
Here, the “attention area” means an area (except for a stable visual field) within an effective visual field centering on a point that the user is looking at (a point of attention).
The attention-time measuring unit 4, when specified the attention area of the user, measures the attention time T that is a time period during which the attention area is overlapping with the display area indicated by the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3 (Step ST4).
For example, when the display area indicated by the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, is the display of the car-navigation device, a time period during which the attention area of the user is covering the display of the car-navigation device, is measured as the attention time T.
Upon receiving the presentation information from the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 refers to the table stored by minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5, to thereby specify the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin corresponding to the type of the presentation object indicated by the presentation information (Step ST5).
In this respect,
The minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin is a minimum necessary time for recognizing the content of the presentation object. In
Note that the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin may be changed depending on an attribute of the user (for example, a state of visual line, a tiredness, an age, an ability to understand, etc.).
For example, in the case where the user is an elderly person aged 60 or over, such an embodiment is conceivable in which 1.0 second is added to the above minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin.
When the attention-time measuring unit 4 measured the attention time T and the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 specified the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 makes a comparison between the attention time T and the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin and determines the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object from the result of that comparison.
In the followings, processing of determining the recognition degree of the user by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 will be described specifically.
Here, such a time is defined as a “little recognition time TLittle” that is assumed not to allow the content of the presentation object to be recognized sufficiently, but to allow it to be somewhat recognized.
Note that, as the little recognition time TLittle, 0.75 second or the like that is shorter than the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin is conceivable.
When the attention-time measuring unit 4 measured the attention time T, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 compares the attention time T with the little recognition time TLittle (Step ST6). If the attention time T is shorter than the little recognition time TLittle, because the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object is thought to be extremely low, the user's recognition-degree determination unit identifies the recognition degree of the user as “Level 1” (Step ST7).
If the attention time T is more than or equal to the little recognition time TLittle, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 compares the attention time T with the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin (Step ST8).
If the attention time T is shorter than the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin, because the content of the presentation object is thought to have not been recognized sufficiently, but have been somewhat recognized, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 identifies the recognition degree of the user as “Level 2” (Step ST9).
Further, if the attention time T is more than or equal to the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin, because the content of the presentation object is thought to have been recognized sufficiently, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 identifies the recognition degree of the user as “Level 3” (Step ST10).
When the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 determined the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object, the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 selects from among a plurality of presentation modes, a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree of the user.
Namely, the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 serves to select the presentation mode that is more unnoticeable as the recognition degree of the user determined by the recognition-degree determination processor 7 becomes higher, and if the recognition degree of the user is Level 1 that is lowest, selects a most noticeable presentation mode (Step ST11), if the recognition degree of the user is Level 2 that is a middle one, selects a somewhat noticeable presentation mode (Step ST12), and if the recognition degree of the user is Level 3 that is highest, selects an unnoticeable presentation mode (Step ST13).
In this respect,
In
Further, examples are shown therein in which, if the recognition degree is Level 2 that is a middle one, only “Icon Blinking Display” is selected as the presentation mode, and if the recognition degree is Level 3 that is highest, no highlighting is applied to the icon.
The presentation-mode selecting unit 8, when selected the presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree of the user, displays the presentation object in the presentation mode on the display processing unit 9 and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10.
Namely, the presentation-mode selecting unit 8, if the recognition degree of the user is Level 1 that is lowest, displays the presentation object in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 1 on the display processing unit 9 and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10 (Step ST14), and if the recognition degree is Level 2 that is a middle one, displays the presentation object in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 2 on the display processing unit 9 and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10 (Step ST15).
Further, if the recognition degree of the user is Level 3 that is highest, the presentation-mode selecting unit displays the presentation object in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 3 on the display processing unit 9 and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10 (Step ST16).
In the followings, a specific example at the time the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 presents the presentation object, will be described. It should be noted that the following example is just an example.
For example, in the case where an announcement of the car-navigation device is the presentation object and the announcement is “Deviated from the Route”, since the type of this presentation object is character and the number of characters [in Japanese] is 11, the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin results in 8.8 seconds (=11×0.8 second) in the manner shown in
Accordingly, if the attention time T during which the user is looking at the display of the car-navigation device is 8.8 seconds or more, the presentation object is presented in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 3 that is highest in the recognition degree of the user.
In that case in
Meanwhile, if the attention time T during which the user is looking at the display of the car-navigation device is the little recognition time TLittle (0.75 second) or more but less than 8.8 seconds, the presentation object is presented in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 2 that is a middle one in the recognition degree of the user.
In that case in
Meanwhile, if the attention time T during which the user is looking at the display of the car-navigation device is shorter than the little recognition time TLittle (0.75 second), the presentation object is presented in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 1 that is lowest in the recognition degree of the user.
In that case in
For example, in the case where an alarm indicative of an abnormality in the vehicle is the presentation object and an icon indicative of the content of the alarm (for example, an icon indicative of an engine abnormality) is to be presented on the instrument panel, since the type of the presentation object is icon, the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin results in 1.5 seconds in the manner shown in
Accordingly, if the attention time T during which the user is looking at the instrument panel is 1.5 seconds or more, the presentation object is presented in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 3 that is highest in the recognition degree of the user.
In that case in
Meanwhile, if the attention time T during which the user is looking at the instrument panel is the little recognition time TLittle (0.75 second) or more but less than 1.5 seconds, the presentation object is presented in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 2 that is a middle one in the recognition degree of the user.
In that case in
Meanwhile, if the attention time T during which the user is looking at the instrument panel is shorter than the little recognition time TLittle (0.75 second), the presentation object is presented in the presentation mode corresponding to Level 1 that is lowest in the recognition degree of the user.
In that case in
Here, such cases are shown where a recognition degree of the user is determined for a single presentation object and the presentation object is displayed on the display of the car-navigation device or the instrument panel according to the recognition degree of the user for that presentation object; however, recognition degrees of the user for a plurality of presentation objects may be determined at the same time to thereby display the respective presentation objects each on a given display processing unit 9 according to the recognition degrees of the user for the respective presentation objects.
As is clear from the above, according to Embodiment 1, it is configured to provide: the attention-time measuring unit 4 that specifies, from a visual line detected by the visual-line detection unit 2, the attention area that is an area that the user is looking at, and measures the attention time T that is a time period during which the attention area is overlapping with the display area indicated by the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3; the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 that specifies, from the type of the presentation object indicated by the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin that is a minimum necessary time for recognizing the content of the presentation object; and the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 that makes a comparison between the attention time T measured by the attention-time measuring unit 4 and the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin specified by the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, and determines from the result of that comparison, the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object; wherein the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 presents the presentation object in the presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7. Thus, there is produced an effect that it is possible to suppress too much information presentations to thereby reduce troublesomeness due to presentation of information.
Accordingly, for example, in a case of deviation from the route presented by the car-navigation device, if in the past, such problems arise that troublesomeness occurs due to continuing sounding of the audio guidance of “Deviated from the Route” during deviation from the route; troublesomeness occurs due to a re-routing alternative that remains on and is not disappearing from the screen of the car-navigation device; the area for map information becomes smaller due to the re-routing alternative that remains on and is not disappearing from the screen; and likewise. However, according to Embodiment 1, when the recognition degree of the user becomes high, for example by stopping the audio guidance or moving/suspending the re-routing alternative, it is possible to suppress too much information presentations to thereby reduce troublesomeness due to presentation of information.
In Embodiment 1, description has been made about a case where the information presentation device is installed in a vehicle, and the HUD, the display of the car-navigation device and the instrumental panel each have a function of the display processing unit 9; however, it is allowable that, for example, a display of a monitoring control system, a display at the driver's seat of a train, a display in a cockpit of a plane, a monitor placed at the operation seat of a ship, or a digital signage associated with a touch operation and placed in a public space, has a function of the display processing unit 9, so that the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 displays the presentation object on such a display or the like.
Further, in Embodiment 1, description has been made about a case where: the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 stores therein the table in which a correspondence relationship is shown between the type of the presentation object and the minimum recognition-necessary time (minimum necessary time for recognizing the content of the presentation object); the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 performs processing of referring to the table stored by the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 to thereby specify the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin; and the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 performs processing of making a comparison between the attention time T measured by the attention-time measuring unit 4 and the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin specified by the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, and determining from the result of that comparison, the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object.
However, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 may be that which makes a comparison between the attention time T measured by the attention-time measuring unit 4 and a predetermined time (a time for recognition) having been determined depending on the content of the presentation object and determines from the result of that comparison, the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object. Thus, the time for recognition is not limited to the minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin. For example, it may be an average time for recognizing the content of the presentation object, a maximum time among the times taken by plural persons as samples to recognize the content of the presentation object, or the like.
In this case, the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 is configured to store therein a table in which a correspondence relationship is shown between the type of the presentation object and the time for recognition, and the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6 is configured to perform processing of referring to the table stored by the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 to thereby specify the time for recognition.
Instead, an attention time measured by an external device may be referred to, and the functions of the display processing unit 9 and the audio output unit 10 may be made up with external devices. In that case, the visual-line measuring camera 1, the visual-line detection unit 2, the attention-time measuring unit 4, the display processing unit 9 and the audio output unit 10, in
Further, in a case where, as shown in Embodiment 1, the presentation object does not present plural pieces of information but presents a single piece of information, it is not necessary to refer to the table of the minimum recognition-necessary time. In that case, the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 and the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, in
Embodiment 2
An on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of acquiring on-vehicle information indicative of a current vehicle condition or the like (vehicle inside/outside information, such as, for example, a vehicle speed, an acceleration rate, a gasoline residual amount in a gasoline car, an energy residual amount in an electric car, a tire air pressure, positional information about a current place, etc., an ambient temperature, a temperature/humidity in a vehicle, a currently-played-back music, and/or navigation information).
An importance-degree determination unit 12 is configured, for example, with a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CPU mounted thereon, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of determining an importance degree of the presentation object on the basis of the on-vehicle information acquired by the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11.
Note that an importance-degree determination processor is constituted by the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11 and the importance-degree determination unit 12.
A presentation-mode selecting unit 13 is configured, for example, with a GPU, a single chip microcomputer or the like, and performs processing of: displaying on the display processing unit 9, the presentation object in a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 and the importance degree determined by the importance-degree determination unit 12; and outputting audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10. Note that the presentation-mode selecting unit 13 constitutes a presentation processor.
In
For example, in the case of the information presentation device a part of which (the visual-line detection unit 2, the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the attention-time measuring unit 4, the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5, the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7, the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11, the importance-degree determination unit 12 and the presentation-mode selecting unit 13) is configured by a computer, it suffices to establish the minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit 5 on an internal memory or an external memory of the computer; to store in the memory of the computer, programs in which written are processing details of the visual-line detection unit 2, the presentation-information acquiring unit 3, the attention-time measuring unit 4, the minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit 6, the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7, the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11, the importance-degree determination unit 12 and the presentation-mode selecting unit 13; and to cause a CPU of the computer to execute the programs stored in the memory.
In Embodiment 1, such a case is shown where the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 displays the presentation object on the display processing unit 9 in the presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7, and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10; however, it is allowable that the presentation-mode selecting unit 13 displays the presentation object on the display processing unit 9 in the presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 and the importance degree determined by the importance-degree determination unit 12, and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10.
A specific description thereof is as follows.
Since other elements than the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11, the importance-degree determination unit 12 and the presentation-mode selecting unit 13, are similar to those in Embodiment 1, only the processing details of the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11, the importance-degree determination unit 12 and the presentation-mode selecting unit 13 will be described here.
The on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11 acquires on-vehicle information indicative of a current vehicle condition or the like, and outputs the on-vehicle information to the importance-degree determination unit 12.
As the on-vehicle information, herein acquired is vehicle inside/outside information, such as, for example, a vehicle speed, an acceleration rate, a gasoline residual amount in a gasoline car, an energy residual amount in an electric car, a tire air pressure, positional information about a current place, etc., an ambient temperature, a temperature/humidity in a vehicle, a currently-played-back music, and/or navigation information.
Upon obtaining the presentation information acquired by the presentation-information acquiring unit 3 and upon receiving the on-vehicle information related to the presentation information from the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11, the importance-degree determination unit 12 determines the importance degree of the presentation object on the basis of the on-vehicle information.
For example, in the case where an alarm indicative of an abnormality of the vehicle is the presentation object and an icon with an alarm content for a lowering of the gasoline residual amount is to be presented on the instrument panel, the importance degree of the presentation object is determined based on the on-vehicle information related to the gasoline residual amount.
Specifically, with respect to the on-vehicle information related to the gasoline residual amount, when it indicates that the gasoline residual amount is 30% or less, the importance degree of the presentation object is given as Importance Degree 1 (low degree of importance); when it indicates that the gasoline residual amount is 20% or less, the importance degree of the presentation object is given as Importance Degree 2 (medium degree of importance); and when it indicates that the gasoline residual amount is 10% or less, the importance degree of the presentation object is given as Importance Degree 3 (high degree of importance).
When the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 determined the recognition degree of the user for the presentation object and the importance-degree determination unit 12 determined the importance degree of presentation object, the presentation-mode selecting unit 13 selects from among a plurality of presentation modes, a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree of the user and the importance degree of the presentation object.
Namely, the presentation-mode selecting unit 13 selects the presentation mode that is more noticeable as the importance degree becomes higher, while selecting like the presentation-mode selecting unit 8 in
In this respect,
In Embodiment 2, even at the same level in the recognition degree of the user, if the importance degrees of the presentation object are different to each other, different presentation modes are selected for them.
In
Even at the same Level 1 in the recognition degree of the user, in the case where the gasoline residual amount is 20% or less (Importance Degree 2), urgency is not so high as in the case where the gasoline residual amount is 10% or less, so that the icon is displayed in a blinking manner on the instrument panel that is a display processing unit 9 and an message indicating that the gasoline residual amount is 20% or less, is displayed on the HUD, the display of the car-navigation device or the like, that is a display processing unit 9; however, the massage indicating that the gasoline residual amount is 20% or less is not outputted by voice.
Further, even at the same Level 1 in the recognition degree of the user, in the case where the gasoline residual amount is 30% or less (Importance Degree 1), urgency is not high, so that only blinking display of the icon is performed from a viewpoint of suppressing troublesomeness due to too much information.
As is clear from the above, according to Embodiment 2, it is configured to include the importance-degree determination unit 12 that determines the importance degree of the presentation object on the basis of the on-vehicle information acquired by the on-vehicle-information acquiring unit 11, wherein the presentation-mode selecting unit 13 displays the presentation object on the display processing unit 9 in the presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the user's recognition-degree determination unit 7 and the importance degree determined by the importance-degree determination unit 12, and outputs the audio data indicative of the content of the presentation object to the audio output unit 10. Thus, like Embodiment 1, there is produced an effect that it is possible to suppress too much information presentations to thereby reduce troublesomeness due to presentation of information, and in addition, to present the presentation object in a proper presentation mode matched to a current situation.
It should be noted that unlimited combination of the respective embodiments, modification of any configuration element in the embodiments and omission of any configuration element in the embodiments may be made in the present invention without departing from the scope of the invention.
The information presentation device according to the invention is suited as a device that is highly required to suppress too much information presentations to thereby reduce troublesomeness due to presentation of information, at the time of displaying a presentation object (for example, an icon, a character(s), a map, a video, etc.) on the display of a car-navigation device or the like.
1: visual-line measuring camera, 2: visual-line detection unit, 3: presentation-information acquiring unit, 4: attention-time measuring unit, 5: minimum recognition-necessary-time storing unit, 6: minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit, 7: user's recognition-degree determination unit (recognition-degree determination processor), 8: presentation-mode selecting unit (presentation processor), 9: display processing unit (presentation processor), 10: audio output unit(presentation processor), 11: on-vehicle-information acquiring unit (importance-degree determination processor), 12: importance-degree determination unit (importance-degree determination processor), 13: presentation-mode selecting unit (presentation processor).
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