JP2012035782A - On-board device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-board device that improves operability.SOLUTION: The on-board device includes a display panel. A rotary operation element or a sliding operation element for operating a device body is located on a display surface of the display panel.

Description

  The present invention relates to an in-vehicle device including a display panel and an operation element.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in-vehicle devices such as car audio devices and car navigation devices include a display panel such as a liquid crystal panel provided in front of the device, and operation switches are arranged around the display panel (for example, Patent Document 1). .
The front dimensions of this type of vehicle-mounted device vary depending on the size of the vehicle-mounted device storage portion in the vehicle, but the space for disposing the operation switch is narrow in some of the devices having a small front size and a large display panel. For this reason, some operation switches are replaced with touch buttons on a touch panel.

JP 2006-270741 A

  By the way, in an in-vehicle device, it is desirable that a specific adjustment operation such as volume adjustment can be performed by flicking instantaneously. However, when the adjustment operation is performed with the touch button of the touch panel, there is a problem that the operability is poor. In addition, when operating the touch button of the touch panel, it is necessary to visually check the display panel for confirming the position of the touch button, and it is difficult to operate by hand search, so that the usability as an in-vehicle device is reduced. is there.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the situation mentioned above, and aims at providing the vehicle-mounted apparatus which can improve operativity.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is characterized in that in a vehicle-mounted device provided with a display panel, a rotary operation element or a slide type operation element for operating the apparatus main body is disposed on the display surface of the display panel. To do.
Further, according to the present invention, in the above vehicle-mounted device, a touch panel is provided on the display panel, and the rotary operation element or the slide type operation element abuts on the touch panel and moves on the touch panel in accordance with the rotation operation or the slide operation. A terminal is provided, and movement of the terminal on the touch panel is detected to operate the apparatus main body.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in the in-vehicle device, the position of the rotary operation element or the slide operation element on the display surface can be changed.
Further, the present invention provides the above-described in-vehicle device, wherein the movement range of the terminal on the display panel is specified based on the changed mounting position of the rotary operation element or the slide operation element, and the movement range is within the movement range. The apparatus main body is operated by detecting the movement of the terminal at a point.
Further, according to the present invention, in the above-described in-vehicle apparatus, the rotary operation element or the slide type operation element is supported, and a support member movably provided on the apparatus main body and the support member are fixed to the apparatus main body so as not to move. A fixing means is provided.

  According to the present invention, since the rotary operation element or the slide type operation element with particularly good operability is provided on the display surface of the display panel, it can be easily operated by groping and the operability is improved. To do.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance structure of the vehicle-mounted apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which expands and shows the structure around a rotary operation element. It is III-III sectional drawing of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the vehicle-mounted apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the procedure which changes and operates the position of a rotary operation element. It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance structure of the vehicle-mounted apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which expands and shows the structure of the rotary operation element periphery of the vehicle-mounted apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
<First Embodiment>
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an external configuration of an in-vehicle device 1 according to the present embodiment.
The in-vehicle device 1 is configured as an audio device that reads and reproduces CDs and DVDs, has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped device body 2, and is fitted in a storage space provided in a vehicle instrument panel 3 or the like. A substantially rectangular main body frame 4 is provided in front of the apparatus main body 2, and a substantially rectangular display panel 5 is fitted into the main body frame 4.
The display panel 5 is a display device that can be touch-operated, and includes a liquid crystal display and a touch panel 6 provided so as to cover the entire surface of the liquid crystal display. The display panel 5 displays a plurality of touch buttons 7 as soft keys for operating the apparatus main body 2 by a touch operation. Further, the touch panel 6 is provided with a rotary operator 23 which will be described later.

A plurality of push-down switches 11 serving as hard keys for performing frequent operations such as power on / off and menu selection are provided below the main body frame 4.
Also, T-grooves 13 are formed on the left and right sides and the upper part of the main body frame 4, and T-groove nuts 15 are slidably fitted into the T-grooves 13 as shown in FIG. A bolt 17 is screwed into the T-groove nut 15, and the bolt 17 passes through a long hole 21 provided along the longitudinal axis of the support member 19 and is fastened to the T-groove nut 15. Thus, the support member 19 is fixed to the main body frame 4. That is, when the bolt 17 is tightened, the support member 19 is fixed to the main body frame 4 so that the position cannot be changed, and when the bolt 17 is loosened, the position of the support member 19 can be changed or removed.

2 is a front view showing the configuration around the tip of the support member 19 when the bolt 17 is tightened, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line III-III in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a rotary operation element 23 is supported at the tip of the support member 19. The rotary operation element 23 includes a shaft member 25 fixed to the end of the support member 19. The shaft member 25 is a member having an axis 27 that is substantially perpendicular to the touch panel 6, and the bottom surface of the shaft member 25 is circular. An operation member 33 having a hole 32 is fitted to the shaft member 25 so as to be rotatable around the axis 27. The step between the bottom surface of the shaft member 25 and the bottom surface of the support member 19 has the same dimension as the step between the main body frame 4 and the touch panel 6.
Two terminals 39 are attached to the bottom surface of the operation member 33. The tip of the terminal 39 exists on the same plane as the bottom surface of the shaft member 25. The shaft member 25 and the operation member 33 are each formed with a ring-shaped protrusion and a ring-shaped groove (not shown), and the movement of the operation member 33 in the direction of the axis 27 is restricted by fitting them together. Has been. The number of terminals 39 arranged on the bottom surface of the shaft member 25 is not limited to two, and may be more or less.

In the present embodiment, the step between the bottom surface of the shaft member 25 and the bottom surface of the support member 19 is the same size as the step between the main body frame 4 and the touch panel 6, and the tip of the terminal 39 is flush with the bottom surface of the shaft member 25. Exists. Therefore, when the bolt 17 is tightened to fix the support member 19 to the main body frame 4, the bottom surface of the shaft member 25 and the tip of the terminal 39 abut against the touch panel 6, and the large-diameter circle is sandwiched between the two small-diameter circles. The rotary operation element contact area 41 having a shape aligned in a straight line is formed.
When the position of the support member 19 is fixed, the shaft member 25 maintains a fixed position on the touch panel 6 and is not displaced. On the other hand, since the terminal 39 is attached to the operation member 33 that is rotatably supported by the shaft member 25, the terminal 39 moves on the touch panel 6 in accordance with the rotation operation of the operation member 33. A concentric arc-shaped terminal movement area 43 is formed.

The terminal movement area 43 is assigned with an operation of the apparatus main body 2, for example, an operation for adjusting the volume. When the terminal 39 is moved in accordance with the rotation operation of the rotary operation element 23, the movement amount is detected by the touch panel 6 as the operation amount, and the volume adjustment process corresponding to the operation amount is executed.
Around the terminal movement area 43, a touch operation invalid area 45 having a predetermined width is formed concentrically with the terminal movement area 43. The touch operation with respect to the inside of the touch operation invalid area 45 is invalidated, and an erroneous operation of the touch button 7 disposed in proximity to the rotary operator 23 is prevented when the rotary operator 23 is operated.
In addition, a scale 47 representing the amount of operation of the apparatus main body 2, for example, a volume change amount in volume adjustment, is displayed in a circular arc region having a predetermined width along the terminal movement area 43 around the rotary operation element 23.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the in-vehicle device 1. FIG. 4 mainly shows functional configuration blocks related to the operation of the apparatus main body 2.
As shown in FIG. 4, the in-vehicle device 1 includes an operation unit 49, a control unit 51, a storage unit 53, a display processing unit 55, an audio processing unit 57, and a speaker 59.
The operation unit 49 includes a rotary operation element 23 attached to the touch panel 6, a touch button 7 that is a soft key displayed on the touch panel 6, a push-down switch 11 that is a hard key disposed below the main body frame 4, and The operation of the rotary operation element 23, the touch button 7 and the push switch 11 is detected and output to the control unit 51.
The display processing unit 55 displays various information on the touch panel 6 under the control of the control unit 51. The sound processing unit 57 outputs sound from the speaker 59 under the control of the control unit 51.

The storage unit 53 stores the shape information of the rotary operation element contact area 41, the terminal movement area 43, the touch operation invalid area 45, the scale 47, and the information on the relative positional relationship between them. In this relative positional relationship, the small-diameter circle of the rotary operation element contact area 41, that is, the contact portion of the terminal 39 is located at the center of the terminal movement area 43.
In addition, the storage unit 53 stores the operation target of the rotary operation element 23, and the relationship between the movement amount and movement direction of the terminal 39 in the terminal movement area 43 and the increase / decrease amount of the operation target of the rotary operation element 23. Is memorized. The storage unit 53 stores, for example, that the process corresponding to the moving amount and moving direction when the terminal 39 is moved from the left end to the right end of the terminal moving area 43 is a process for increasing the volume from 0 to the maximum volume. To do.
Further, the storage unit 53 is located immediately after the mounting position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed, that is, the rotary operation element 23 is not rotated, and the contact portion of the terminal 39 is positioned at the center of the terminal moving area 43. If so, the output predetermined volume is stored. This predetermined volume is, for example, half the maximum volume.

The control unit 51 centrally controls each unit of the in-vehicle device 1 and includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like (not shown).
In addition, when a signal associated with the movement of the terminal 39 in the terminal movement area 43 is input from the touch panel 6, the control unit 51 performs a process of changing the operation target by an operation amount corresponding to the movement amount of the terminal 39. Is what you do.
In addition, the control unit 51 receives the position detection signal of the rotary operation element 23 from the touch panel 6, specifies the positions of the terminal movement area 43, the touch operation invalid area 45 and the scale 47, and touches in the touch operation invalid area 45. A process of invalidating the operation and a process of displaying the scale 47 on the display panel 5 are performed.

With reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 5, the procedure for operating the apparatus main body 2 with the rotary operator 23 after changing the position of the rotary operator 23 will be described.
First, when the bolt 17 is loosened and the support member 19 is separated from the main body frame 4 at the position indicated by the solid line in FIG. 1, the shaft member 25 and the terminal 39 are separated from the touch panel 6 as shown in FIG. At this time, the support member 19 can turn around the bolt 17 and can slide in the longitudinal direction of the long hole 21, and the T-groove nut 15 and the bolt 17 can slide along the T-groove 13. That is, the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 on the touch panel 6 can be freely changed.
Next, after the support member 19 is moved to the position indicated by the broken line in FIG. 1, when the bolt 17 is tightened, the support member 19 is fixed to the main body frame 4 as shown in FIG. While the child 23 is positioned, the bottom surface of the shaft member 25 and the tip of the terminal 39 are in contact with the touch panel 6 to form a rotary operation element contact area 41.

By the way, in this embodiment, the control part 51 is performing the process which determines whether the position of the rotary operation element 23 was changed by the predetermined time interval, and the position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed. When this happens, the process of automatically specifying the mounting position of the rotary operation element 23 is performed. In this determination process, the control unit 51 first compares the detection result of the touch panel 6 with the shape information of the rotary operation element contact area 41 stored in the storage unit 53 to thereby determine the rotary operation element. The position of the contact area 41 is specified. Then, by comparing with the previous position specifying result of the rotary operation element contact area 41, it is determined whether or not the position of the rotary operation element 23 has been changed.
Therefore, when the mounting position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed from the position indicated by the solid line in FIG. 1 to the position indicated by the broken line in FIG. 1, the control unit 51 determines that the position of the rotary operation element 23 has been changed. The following processing is executed.

First, the control unit 51 compares the position of the rotary operation element contact area 41 with the information on the relative positional relationship between the rotary operation element contact area 41 and the terminal movement area 43 stored in the storage unit 53. By doing so, the position of the terminal movement area 43 is specified.
Next, the control unit 51 performs a process of invalidating the touch operation in the touch operation invalid area 45 using the area having a predetermined width along the terminal movement area 43 as the touch operation invalid area 45.
Further, the control unit 51 compares the position of the rotary operation element contact area 41 with the information on the relative positional relationship between the rotary operation element contact area 41 and the scale 47 stored in the storage unit 53, After the position of the scale 47 is specified, the display processing unit 55 is controlled to display the scale 47.
Furthermore, the control unit 51 outputs a predetermined volume stored in the storage unit 53, for example, a volume that is half of the maximum volume.

When the rotary operation element 23 is rotated at the changed position indicated by the broken line in FIG. 1, the terminal 39 moves on the touch panel 6 along with the rotation operation.
At this time, the control unit 51 specifies the moving amount and moving direction of the terminal 39 in the terminal moving area 43 based on the signal from the touch panel 6. Next, the control unit 51 refers to the information on the relationship between the movement amount and movement direction of the terminal 39 in the terminal movement area 43 and the increase / decrease amount of the operation target of the rotary operator 23 stored in the storage unit 53. Then, a process of changing the operation target of the rotary operation element 23, that is, the volume, according to the movement amount and the movement direction of the terminal 39 is performed.

  Note that the rearrangement process of the touch buttons 7 on the touch panel 6 may be performed after the position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed. For example, the touch button 7 displayed at the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 after the position change is displayed at the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 before the position change. Thereby, even after the position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed, all the touch buttons 7 displayed before the position change can be operated, so that operability can be ensured.

According to the present embodiment, since the rotary operation element 23 with particularly good operability is provided on the display surface of the display panel 5, it can be easily operated by groping and the operability is improved.
Further, according to the present embodiment, the touch panel 6 is provided on the display panel 5, and the rotary operator 23 is provided with the terminal 39 that contacts the touch panel 6 and moves on the touch panel 6 in accordance with the rotation operation. 6, the apparatus main body 2 is operated by detecting the movement of the apparatus 6. Therefore, even if there is no electric wire for connecting the rotary operation element 23 and the apparatus main body 2, the apparatus can be operated by rotating the rotary operation element 23. The main body 2 can be operated, design freedom is improved, and design is improved.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, when the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed, the terminal movement area 43 that is the movement range of the terminal 39 on the display panel 5 based on the attachment position after the change. Since the device body 2 is operated by detecting the movement of the terminal 39 in the terminal movement area 43, the position of the rotary operation element 23 can be changed to a position that can be easily operated by the user. , Can improve usability.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the rotary operation element 23 is supported, and the support member 19 provided to the main body frame 4 provided on the front surface of the apparatus main body 2 so that the position of the main body frame 4 can be changed. The position of the rotary operation element 23 is not displaced during the operation, and the touch button 7 comes close to the rotary operation element 23. Even if the touch buttons 7 are arranged by the rotary operation element 23, there is no possibility that the touch button 7 is erroneously operated. For this reason, the touch button 7 can be arranged in the vicinity of the rotary operation element 23, and the degree of freedom of arrangement of the touch button 7 can be improved. Further, since the position of the support member 19 can be changed by loosening the bolt 17, even after the rotary operation element 23 is once positioned, the position of the rotary operation element 23 can be easily changed. It can be positioned again.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the terminal movement area 43 that is the movement range of the terminal 39 on the display panel 5 is specified based on the mounting position of the rotary operation element 23 after the change, and the rotary operation element 23 is identified. Since the scale 47 indicating the operation amount of the apparatus main body 2 is displayed in an arc-shaped area having a predetermined width along the terminal movement area 43, the mounting position of the rotary operator 23 is displayed on the touch panel 6. Even when it is changed, the display position of the scale 47 representing the operation amount of the apparatus main body 2 is changed following the change of the mounting position of the rotary operation element 23, and the display position deviation between the scale 47 and the rotary operation element 23 is changed. Thus, the operation amount can be easily and quickly grasped, and the scale 47 can be always displayed around the rotary operation element 23.

Second Embodiment
Next, as a second embodiment of the present invention, an in-vehicle device configured such that the support member 19 that supports the rotary operation element 23 does not protrude outside the apparatus main body 2 will be described.
6 and 7 are diagrams illustrating a configuration of the in-vehicle device 100 according to the present embodiment. 6 and 7, the same reference numerals are given to the portions described in the first embodiment, and the description thereof is omitted.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, in the present embodiment, the configuration of the support member 119 that supports the rotary operation element 23 at the tip is greatly different from the configuration of the support member 19 of the first embodiment. That is, in the first embodiment, the long hole 21 is provided on the longitudinal axis of the support member 19 to guide the movement of the support member 19 in the longitudinal direction. In contrast, in the present embodiment, the base end 119A of the support member 119 is pivotally supported on the bolt 17 that moves along the T groove 13 of the main body frame 4, and the support member 119 is rotated around the bolt 17 as a center. It is configured to move freely.
The support member 119 is pivotally supported by the bolt 17 with the base end 119 </ b> A positioned at a position where the end of the base end 119 </ b> A does not protrude outside the main body frame 4. Accordingly, even if the support member 119 is rotated or slid along the T-groove 13 to change the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 to an arbitrary position on the display panel 5, the base end of the support member 119 is obtained. 119A does not protrude outside the apparatus main body 2 and the design is improved. Further, since the base end 119A of the support member 119 does not protrude to the outside of the apparatus main body 2, there is no possibility that the base end 119A interferes with vehicle parts located around the apparatus main body 2.

The first and second embodiments described above show only one aspect of the present invention, and can be arbitrarily modified and applied without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
In each embodiment mentioned above, although the example which attaches one rotary operation element 23 to touch panel 6 was explained, the number of operation elements attached to touch panel 6 is not limited to this, and may be two or more. In addition, the type of operation element attached to the touch panel 6 is not limited to the rotary operation element 23, and a slide operation element may be provided instead of the rotation operation element 23. Moreover, although the configuration in which the operation target of the rotary operation element 23 is a volume is illustrated, the operation target is not limited to the volume, and may be a radio channel selection, a set temperature of an air conditioner, or the like.

  Moreover, in each embodiment mentioned above, the process which determines whether the position of the rotary operation element 23 was changed by the predetermined time interval is performed, and when the position of the rotary operation element 23 is changed, it is automatic. Although the structure which performs the process which specifies the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 was illustrated to this, it is not restricted to this. That is, a touch button for executing a process for specifying the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 is provided on the display panel 5 or a push switch is provided on the main body frame 4. After the change, it may be configured to perform a process of specifying the attachment position of the rotary operation element 23 only when the touch button or the push switch is operated.

  Moreover, although the audio apparatus was illustrated as an example of the in-vehicle apparatuses 1 and 100, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention is applied to an arbitrary apparatus such as a navigation apparatus or a hands-free call apparatus as long as the apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. be able to. In the present invention, vehicles include not only automobiles and trains but also airplanes and ships, and the present invention can be applied to devices mounted on these.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1,100 In-vehicle apparatus 2 Apparatus main body 4 Main body frame 5 Display panel 6 Touch panel 7 Touch button 15 T groove nut (fixing means)
17 bolts (fixing means)
19, 119 Support member 119A Base end 23 Rotary operation element 25 Shaft member 33 Operation member 39 Terminal 41 Rotary operation element contact area (attachment position)
43 Terminal movement area (terminal movement range)
49 Operation Unit 51 Control Unit 53 Storage Unit 55 Display Processing Unit 57 Audio Processing Unit

Claims (5)

In an in-vehicle device equipped with a display panel,
An in-vehicle device characterized in that a rotary operation element or a slide type operation element for operating an apparatus main body is disposed on a display surface of a display panel.   A touch panel is provided on the display panel, and a terminal that contacts the touch panel and moves on the touch panel in accordance with a rotation operation or a slide operation is provided on the rotary operation element or the slide operation element. The in-vehicle device according to claim 1, wherein the device main body is operated by detecting movement.   The in-vehicle device according to claim 2, wherein the position of the rotary operation element or the slide operation element on the display surface can be changed.   The movement range of the terminal on the display panel is specified based on the mounting position of the rotary operation element or the slide operation element after the change, and the movement of the terminal within the movement range is detected to detect the movement of the terminal. The in-vehicle device according to claim 3, wherein the device main body is operated.   A support member that supports the rotary operation element or the slide operation element and is provided so that the position of the apparatus main body can be changed, and a fixing means for fixing the support member to the apparatus main body so that the position of the apparatus cannot be changed. The in-vehicle device according to claim 3 or 4.

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