Vehicle display apparatus

• US 20050228556A1
• Filed: 04/07/2005
• Published: 10/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kojima, Mitsunari
• Application Number:
  US11/100,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20050228556A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 37/02 Arrangement of instruments arrangement of lighting devices for dashboards B60Q3/10

Abstract

A vehicle display apparatus comprises a vehicle states detecting means (11) for detecting states of a vehicle, a display means (12) for displaying vehicle information according to the states of the vehicle detected by the vehicle states detecting means, and a mode-of-display changing means (13) capable of changing the mode of displaying the vehicle information on the display means. The mode-of-display changing means receives specifications information about the vehicle and changes the mode of display on the display means according to the specifications information.

Claims

1. A vehicle display apparatus comprising:

a vehicle states detecting means for detecting states of a vehicle,

a display means for displaying vehicle information according to the states of the vehicle detected by the vehicle states detecting means, and

a mode-of-display changing means capable of changing the mode of displaying the vehicle information on the display means, wherein

the mode-of-display changing means receives specifications information about the vehicle and change the mode of display on the display means according to the specifications information.

2. The vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display means includes a numerical quantity display section for displaying the vehicle information in the form of numerical quantities according to the states of the vehicle detected by the vehicle states detecting means, and

the mode-of-display changing means changes at least either the range of numerical quantities displayed in the numerical quantity display section or the display-responsiveness of the numerical quantity display section according to the specifications information.

3. The vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display means includes a warning display section for displaying the vehicle information in the form of warnings according to the states of the vehicle detected by the vehicle states detecting means, and

the mode-of-display changing means changes the mode of displaying warnings in the warning display section according to the specifications information.

4. The vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the mode-of-display changing means changes the language used for display on the display means according to the specifications information.

5. The vehicle display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the vehicle states detecting means detects states of a device installed in the vehicle,

the display means includes a device states display section for displaying the states of the device installed in the vehicle, and

the mode-of-display changing means changes the mode of display in the device states display section according to the specifications information.