JP2015020669A - Auxiliary image display device of blind area - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auxiliary image display device of blind area capable of displaying an image of a blind area continuously to an image that can be directly viewed by a viewer more easily.SOLUTION: An auxiliary image display device of blind area 100 which displays an image of a blind area that is interrupted by an obstacle within a vehicle, includes a pair 110 of parallel plane mirrors to which light L representing the image is made incident, arranged with: a semi-transmissive plane mirror 111 disposed on a viewer and reflecting a part of the light L and transmitting a part of the light L; and a plane mirror 112 facing the semi-transmissive plane mirror 111, reflecting the light L reflected by the semi-transmissive plane mirror 111 to the semi-transmissive plane mirror 111 again.

Description

  The present invention relates to a blind spot assisting device that projects an image of a blind spot area obstructed by an obstacle such as a front pillar in a vehicle.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, a device disclosed in Patent Document 1 is known as a visual recognition device that displays a blind spot caused by an obstacle such as a front pillar in a vehicle. The visual recognition device includes a first mirror that reflects the front of the vehicle and a second mirror that reflects light incident on the first mirror toward the driver, and an image that the driver can see through the direct visual recognition area that sandwiches the front pillar of the vehicle. The first mirror and / or the second mirror can be adjusted so that the images reflected on the second mirror are continuous.

JP 2006-231998 A

  However, in the visual recognition device according to Patent Document 1, the first mirror and the second mirror are positioned relative to each other so that the first mirror that receives light from the blind spot does not block the second mirror and the landscape as viewed from the driver. There is a problem that it is necessary to adjust and installation work and adjustment work are complicated.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a blind spot assisting device that can more easily project an image of a blind spot area continuously with an image directly viewed by a viewer. To do.

In order to achieve the above object, a blind spot assisting device according to the present invention includes:
A blind spot assisting device that displays an image of a blind spot area obstructed by an obstacle in a vehicle,
A pair of mirrors that incident light representing the image, a semi-transmission mirror that is provided on the viewer side and reflects part of the light and transmits part of the light; and a mirror that reflects light to the semi-transmission mirror A pair of mirrors arranged so as to face each other is provided.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to more easily display the image of the blind spot area continuously with the image directly viewed by the viewer.

It is a figure which shows the general view of the driver's seat vicinity of the vehicle by which the blind spot auxiliary device which concerns on embodiment of this invention is arrange | positioned. It is a top view which shows the general view of a blind spot auxiliary device same as the above. It is a top view which shows a blind spot auxiliary device same as the above. It is a partial front view which shows the blind spot auxiliary device which concerns on the modification of this invention.

  A blind spot assisting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a view showing an overview of the vicinity of a driver's seat of a vehicle 1 in which a blind spot assisting device 100 according to the present embodiment is arranged. As shown in FIG. 1, the vehicle 1 includes a steering 10, a windshield glass 20, side glasses 30 and 40, and front pillars 50 and 60. Reference numerals 21 and 22 denote light-shielding black ceramic (black ceramic) portions that are printed on the periphery of the windshield glass 20.

  In the vehicle 1, a viewer (mainly a driver) directly sees the scenery in the area where the windshield glass 20 (excluding the black ceramic portion 21) and the side glasses 30 and 40 are arranged, while the front pillar 50, In the area where 60 and the black sera parts 21 and 22 are arranged, the front pillars 50 and 60 and the black sera parts 21 and 22 block the visual field of the viewer, resulting in a blind spot area where the landscape cannot be seen directly. That is, the front pillars 50 and 60 and the black ceramic portions 21 and 22 correspond to obstacles in the vehicle 1 in the present invention.

Next, the configuration of the blind spot assisting device 100 according to the present embodiment will be described based on FIGS. 2 and 3 are plan views showing an overview of the blind spot assisting device 100. FIG.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the blind spot assisting device 100 is disposed via a holder member (not shown) on the front pillar 50 on the right side (driver side) when viewed from the viewer side. The image of the blind spot area blocked by 21 is projected. The blind spot assisting device 100 is disposed so as to face the front pillar 50 and the black ceramic portion 21 when viewed from the viewer.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the blind spot assisting device 100 includes a pair of parallel plane mirrors (a pair of mirrors) 110, a filling member 120, and a left-right direction rotation unit 130.

  The pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 is configured by arranging a semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 that reflects a part of incident light and transmits a part thereof, and a flat mirror 112 so as to face each other in parallel. The transflective flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112 are fixed in a parallel positional relationship by being arranged on a holder member (not shown). It should be noted that the pair of mirrors of the present invention need not be arranged completely in parallel as long as they are arranged so as to face each other, and may be curved mirrors instead of plane mirrors.

  The transflective flat mirror 111 is disposed on the viewer 2 side, and for example, a metal such as aluminum is vapor-deposited on the surface of a base material made of a translucent resin material such as polyethylene terephthalate, polycarbonate, polyethylene, and acrylic. The reflectance adjustment layer is formed so as to have a reflectance of 5%. The reflectance (transmittance) is adjusted depending on the thickness and type of the reflectance adjusting layer. The light quantity ratio between the transmitted light and the reflected light in the transflective flat mirror 111 of this embodiment is transmitted light: reflected light = 1: 9. The transflective flat mirror 111 may be formed by coating the surface of a base material with a dielectric multilayer film. The transflective flat mirror 111 has a base 111a facing the parallel mirror 112 and an extending portion 111b extending from the base 111a. The transflective flat mirror 111 and the parallel mirror 112 are stepped in the horizontal direction. Are arranged as follows.

  The plane mirror 112 is arranged so that the plane (reflection surface) thereof is parallel to the plane (semi-transmission reflection surface) of the semi-transmission plane mirror 111. For example, the substrate made of the above-described translucent resin material is used. It is a flat aluminum vapor deposition mirror formed by vapor-depositing a metal such as aluminum on the surface.

  The filling member 120 is a translucent member that is filled between the transflective flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112, and is made of a translucent resin material such as polyethylene terephthalate, polycarbonate, polyethylene, or acrylic. By the filling member 120, the pair of parallel flat mirrors 120 has a solid structure. A base material (translucent member) made of a translucent resin material is provided with a pair of parallel planes, a semi-transparent surface is formed on one plane, and a reflective surface is formed on the other plane. A pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 having a structure may be configured.

  The left-right direction rotation part 130 has a shaft part (not shown) orthogonal to the horizontal direction of the vehicle 1 and allows the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 to turn left and right around this shaft part. In the present embodiment, the left and right direction rotating unit 130 adjusts the angle of the viewer by directly rotating the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 to the left and right by manual operation. Note that the left-right direction rotation unit 130 may include an electric motor or the like, and the angle of the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 may be adjusted by a switch such as a remote controller.

Next, the operation of the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 shows a state in which the viewer 2 is seated on the driver's seat.
In FIG. 2, a blind spot area D that is blocked by a front pillar 50 (not shown, but also including the black ceramic portion 21) is generated in the front view of the viewer 2. Therefore, the viewer 2 cannot directly view the object M present in the blind spot area D.
On the other hand, the light L from the object M is incident on the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 and is repeatedly reflected between the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 while a part of the light L is emitted from the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 ( The light passes through the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111). The light incident on the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 and repeatedly reflected between the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 is light having an inclination with respect to the parallel plane of the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110. Part of the light L emitted from the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 reaches the eyes of the viewer 2. Therefore, the viewer 2 can view the image of the object M reflected on the plane mirror 112 continuously through the semi-transparent plane mirror 111 continuously with the scenery that can be directly viewed. In addition, in a small area on the back side of the front pillar 50 (the part indicated by hatching) in the blind spot area D, light from this area cannot enter the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110, and the image is displayed as a pair of parallel plane mirrors. 110, the image of the blind spot area D can be projected by the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 in almost all other areas.
Note that when the image of the blind spot area D is projected by the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110, the viewer 2 places the blind spot assisting device 100 at an arbitrary height of the front pillar 50 (a height that matches the line of sight of the viewer 2). Further, the pair of parallel rotation mirrors 130 allows the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 to display an image of the blind spot area D, that is, the light L from the blind spot area D reaches the eyes of the viewer 2. The angle of the parallel plane mirror 110 is adjusted. Since the positional relationship between the transflective flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112 is fixed in parallel with each other, the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 can be arranged at the same time by a single arranging operation, and the pair of parallel mirrors 110 can be arranged by a single adjusting operation. The angles of the parallel plane mirrors 110 can be adjusted simultaneously.

Here, the light quantity ratio between the transmitted light and the reflected light in the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 is 1: 9. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, when the light L first enters the semi-transmissive flat mirror 0111, it is the first outgoing light from the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 (first transmitted light from the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111). A certain amount of light L1 is 1/10 of the light L first incident on the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111. Since the light L1 differs only in light quantity compared to the light L, the light L1 shows an image of the object M like the light L. On the other hand, the light L first incident on the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 is reflected in the order of the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112, and enters the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 again (second time). When the light L is incident on the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 for the second time, the light L2 indicating the image of the object M is emitted from the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 as in the first case. Further, the light L incident on the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 for the second time is reflected in the order of the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112, and enters the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 again (third time). When the light L is incident on the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 for the third time, the light L3 indicating the image of the object M is emitted from the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 as in the case of the second time.
Thus, since the light L is repeatedly reflected between the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110, when the light L is incident n times on the transflective plane mirror 111, the lights L1 to Ln indicating the image of the object M are one parallel. The light is emitted from the plane mirror 110. That is, light L indicating images of n objects M is emitted from the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 along the left-right direction of the eyes of the viewer 2. Therefore, the viewer 2 can visually recognize the image of the object M in a wide range in the left-right direction.
The light quantity ratio between the transmitted light and the reflected light in the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 is appropriately determined in consideration of the relationship between the decrease in the luminance of the light L and the initial luminance of the light L as the number of reflections increases. In addition, the light amount ratio between the transmitted light and the reflected light may be 1: 1 or 1: 4, for example.

The blind spot assisting device 100 configured as described above is a blind spot assisting device 100 that displays an image of the blind spot area D that is blocked by an obstacle in the vehicle 1.
A pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 on which light L representing the image is incident, a semi-transparent plane mirror 111 provided on the viewer 2 side that reflects part of the light L and transmits part of the light L, and half the light L A pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 are provided so that the plane mirror 112 that reflects to the transmission plane mirror 111 faces each other.
Thereby, since the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 is used as one of the pair of parallel flat mirrors 110, the viewer 2 can visually recognize the image and the scenery of the object M reflected on the flat mirror 111 through the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111. The degree of freedom of the arrangement position of the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 is increased, and the image of the blind spot area D can be projected more easily and continuously with the image (landscape) that the viewer 2 directly recognizes. Further, since a camera that captures the blind spot area and a display that displays the captured image are unnecessary, the cost is lower than when these are used.

The semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 includes a base portion 111a facing the flat mirror 112 and an extending portion 111b extending from the base portion 111a.
Thereby, the light L from the wide range of the blind spot area | region D can be entered by the extension part 111b, and the image of the blind spot area | region D can be projected favorably.

Further, a filling member 120 is disposed between the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112.
According to this, dust and dirt can be prevented from adhering to the parallel plane of the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111 and the flat mirror 112, and the visibility of the blind spot assisting device 100 can be maintained for a long time.

The pair of parallel flat mirrors 110 are formed using a resin material as a base material.
According to this, safety can be improved compared with the case where a glass material is used as a base material.

  Next, a blind spot assisting device according to a modification will be described with reference to FIG. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same or equivalent part as the above-mentioned embodiment, and the detail is abbreviate | omitted.

As shown in FIG. 4, the blind spot assisting device 101 according to the modification has an inclined surface 111 c along the glass surface of the windshield glass 20 of the vehicle 1 at the end of the semi-transmissive flat mirror 111.
According to this, a pair of parallel plane mirrors 110 can be brought as close as possible to the glass surface of the vehicle 1, and light L from a wide range of the blind spot area D can be incident on the pair of parallel plane mirrors 110, which is favorable. An image of the blind spot area D can be projected on the screen. The “inclined surface along the glass surface of the vehicle” may be a surface that is inclined in a direction substantially corresponding to the inclination direction of the glass surface. Further, the inclined surface may be formed on the plane mirror 112.

  In addition, this invention is not limited by the said embodiment and drawing. It goes without saying that changes (including deletion of components) can be added to the embodiment and the drawings. Although the blind spot assisting devices 100 and 101 of the present embodiment are arranged on the right front pillar 50 when viewed from the driver's seat side of the vehicle 1, a similar blind spot assisting device is also arranged on the left front pillar 60. May be. Further, as an obstacle in the vehicle, it may be a blind spot assisting device that is arranged on a center pillar, a rear pillar, or the like in addition to the front pillar and displays an image of a blind spot area blocked by these.

  The present invention is suitable for a blind spot assisting device that projects an image of a blind spot area that is blocked by an obstacle in a vehicle.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Vehicle 2 Viewer 100, 101 Blind spot auxiliary device 110 A pair of parallel plane mirror 111 Semi-transmission plane mirror 111a Base part 111b Extension part 111c Inclined surface 112 Plane mirror 120 Filling member (translucent member)
130 Left-right rotation part

Claims (5)

A blind spot assisting device that displays an image of a blind spot area obstructed by an obstacle in a vehicle,
A pair of mirrors that incident light representing the image, a semi-transmission mirror that is provided on the viewer side and reflects part of the light and transmits part of the light; and a mirror that reflects light to the semi-transmission mirror A blind spot assisting device comprising a pair of mirrors arranged so as to face each other.   The blind spot assisting device according to claim 1, wherein the transflective mirror includes a base portion facing the mirror and an extending portion extending from the base portion.   The blind spot assisting device according to claim 1, wherein a translucent member is disposed between the semi-transmissive mirror and the mirror.   The blind spot assisting device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the pair of mirrors are formed using a resin material as a base material.   5. The blind spot assist according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the semi-transmissive mirror and the mirror has an inclined surface along a glass surface of the vehicle at an end portion. 6. apparatus.

Images