Vehicular meter unit and display device
First Claim
1. A vehicular meter unit arranged to face a driver'"'"'s seat of a vehicle, the vehicular meter unit comprising:
- a meter display means for displaying a plurality of image function components, each of which is formed as either one of an image meter indicating an obtained meter indication value and an information output section other than the image meter for changing a display state in accordance with an obtained information content, on a screen of a display in such a manner that the display of the image function components can be switched between a first display mode and a second display mode providing different display layouts of the image function components, wherein the image function components include at least one image meter; and
a display control means for setting a display region of a second specific image function component, which is the image function component displayed as a display object only in the second display mode, in the second display mode such that the display region of the second specific image function component overlaps at least partially with a display region of a common image function component, which is the image function component displayed as a display object in both of the first display mode and the second display mode, in the first display mode on the screen after the switching of the display mode, for setting a display region of the common image function component in the second display mode exclusively outside the display region of the second specific image function component, and for providing a display state in the second display mode in the case where the display mode is switched from the first display mode to the second display mode while or after a moving image showing a transition process of movement of the common image function component from a display position in the first display mode to a display position in the second display mode is displayed as a mode transition animation.
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Abstract
In a first display mode, a common image function component is displayed to occupy at least a part of a display region of a second specific image function component. In a second display mode, the common image function component is continuously displayed outside the second specific image function component to avoid the overlap therebetween (i.e., such that an exclusive positional relationship is made therebetween). When the display mode is switched, a final transition of the display mode to a display state in the second display mode is made while or after a moving image showing a transition process, in which the common image function component is moved from a display position in the first display mode to a display position in the second display mode, is displayed as a mode transition animation.
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29 Claims
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1. A vehicular meter unit arranged to face a driver'"'"'s seat of a vehicle, the vehicular meter unit comprising:
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a meter display means for displaying a plurality of image function components, each of which is formed as either one of an image meter indicating an obtained meter indication value and an information output section other than the image meter for changing a display state in accordance with an obtained information content, on a screen of a display in such a manner that the display of the image function components can be switched between a first display mode and a second display mode providing different display layouts of the image function components, wherein the image function components include at least one image meter; and a display control means for setting a display region of a second specific image function component, which is the image function component displayed as a display object only in the second display mode, in the second display mode such that the display region of the second specific image function component overlaps at least partially with a display region of a common image function component, which is the image function component displayed as a display object in both of the first display mode and the second display mode, in the first display mode on the screen after the switching of the display mode, for setting a display region of the common image function component in the second display mode exclusively outside the display region of the second specific image function component, and for providing a display state in the second display mode in the case where the display mode is switched from the first display mode to the second display mode while or after a moving image showing a transition process of movement of the common image function component from a display position in the first display mode to a display position in the second display mode is displayed as a mode transition animation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. The vehicular meter unit arranged to face a driver'"'"'s seat of a vehicle, the vehicular meter unit comprising:
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a meter display means for displaying a plurality of image function components, each of which is formed as either one of an image meter displaying an obtained meter indication value and an information output section other than the image meter for changing a display state in accordance with an obtained information content, on a screen of a display in such a manner that the display of the image function components can be switched between a first display mode and a second display mode providing different display layouts of the image function components, wherein the image function components include at least one image meter; and a display control means for setting a display region of a first specific image function component, which is the image function component displayed as a display object only in the first display mode, to overlap at least partially with a display region of a second specific image function component, which is the image function component displayed as a display object only in the second display mode, on the screen after the switching of the display mode and for providing a display state in the second display mode in the case where the display mode is switched from the first display mode to the second display mode while or after a moving image, in which a display state of the first specific image function component is gradually erased, is displayed as a mode transition animation.
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17. A vehicular meter unit comprising:
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a first meter display means for displaying an image indicative of speed of a vehicle on a screen of a display as a first display mode with the use of a pointer type analog speed meter having a pointer, which can move along a prescribed indication track, and a scale plate graphic, which is formed along the indication track, and an image of a digital speed meter, which digitally indicates a speed indication value of the pointer with a digit image, in a first position specific to the first display mode together with the pointer type analog speed meter; a second meter display means for displaying a subsidiary information output section, which is specific to a second display mode and is not displayed in the first display mode, on the screen of the display as the second display mode such that the subsidiary information output section overlaps with and bridges both of a region occupied by the pointer type analog speed meter in the first display mode and a region occupied by the digital speed meter in the first display mode while erasing the image of the pointer type analog speed meter, for moving the digital speed meter from the first position to a second position specific to the second display mode, which does not overlap with the subsidiary information output section, and for displaying the digital speed meter at the second position; and a display mode switching means for switching an image display state of the display between the first display mode and the second display mode. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A display device comprising:
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a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are formed in a matrix shape; and a control means for switching a display of the display panel among a first display image indicating first information, a contraction image indicating the first information in a size contracted from the first display image and in a form different from the first display image, and an intermediate image indicating the first information in the same size as the first display image and in a form that is the same as or similar to the contraction image, wherein when the display is switched between the first display image and the contraction image, the display is switched to the intermediate image in the course of the switching of the display. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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Specification