Display Apparatus and Display Method

• US 20090040297A1
• Filed: 08/30/2006
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Harada, Haruo, Nakata, Kenji, Enomoto, Ichiro, Mizuno, Yoshihisa, Kuwano, Teruomi, Maekawa, Katsuyuki, Tanaka, Shogo
• Application Number:
  US11/991,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20090040297A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/54
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133509 Filters, e.g. light shielding masks
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/028 by changing the viewing angle properties, e.g. widening the viewing angle, adapting the viewing angle to the view direction
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/066 for control of contrast
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0673 for control of gamma adjustment, e.g. selecting another gamma curve
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/068 for control of viewing angle adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

The present invention is an display apparatus including: a display portion 100 that displays individual images IM1 and IM2 on the same screen; and a display control portion 10 that adjusts image quality of the individual images IM1 and IM2 as output conditions thereof to control visible ranges of the individual images IM1 and IM2. According to the present invention, the visible ranges can be changed by adjusting the image quality of the individual images IM1 and IM2. Therefore, it is possible to optimize the visible ranges of the individual images IM1 and IM2, and improve the visibility of the images in a multi-view display without changing the configuration of the display portion 100 composed of the multi-view display.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

display means that displays individual images for at least two visible ranges on the same screen; and

display control means that adjusts an output condition of the single individual image to control the visible range of the single individual image.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display control means adjusts the image quality of the single individual image as the output condition of the single individual image.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display control means controls the visible range of the single individual image so that the visible range of the single individual image is maintained to uniformity according to brightness of surroundings of the display means.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display control means controls the visible range of the single individual image so that the visible range of the single individual image becomes wider than the visible range of another individual image.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display control means adjusts the visible range of the single individual image together with the image quality of the another individual image.

6. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein when the image quality of the single individual image is adjusted, the display control means adjusts the image quality of the another individual image so that the visible range of the another individual image maintains a state before adjustment of the image quality of the single individual image.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display control means adjusts at least one of brightness, contrast, color tone, and gamma value as the adjustment of the image quality.

8. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display control means controls the visible range according to an instruction input from the outside.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display control means adjusts the image quality according to a type of a supply source supplying the single individual image.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display control means displays the visible range of the single individual image of the display means.

11. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising detection means that detects brightness of surroundings of the display means,

wherein the display control means controls the image quality or display form of the single individual image as a output state based on the detection results of the detection means,

when supply source supplying the single individual image and the another individual image are the same, the display control means executes the adjustment of the image quality of the single individual image or change of the display form of the single individual based on the detection results of the detection means, and

when the supply sources supplying the single individual image and the another individual image are different, the display control means does not execute the adjustment of the image quality of the single individual image or change of the display form of the single individual image based on the detection results of the detection means.

12. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the detection means detects the brightness of surroundings of the display means based on an operation state of a illumination switch controlling illuminations of a vehicle.

13. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein when the illumination switch is turned off, the display control means sets the single individual image to brightness for daytime display,

when the illumination switch is turned on, and the supply sources supplying the single individual image and the another individual image are the same, the display control means sets the single individual image to brightness for nighttime display, and

when the illumination switch is turned on, and supply sources supplying the single individual image and the another individual image are different, the display control means sets the single individual image to brightness for daytime display.

14. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the supply sources supplying the single individual image and the another individual image a navigation apparatus, the display control means switches the single individual image back and forth between a navigation image for dark time and a navigation image for bright time, based on the detection results of the detection means, and

when the supply source supplying the single individual image is the navigation apparatus, and the supply source supplying the another individual image is other apparatus other than the navigation apparatus, the display control means does not execute the change of the display form of the single individual image based on the detection results of the detection means.

15. A display method of a display apparatus comprising the steps of:

a displaying individual images for at least two visible ranges on the same screen; and

adjusting an output condition of the single individual image to control the visible range of the single individual image.

16. The display method of the display apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein the image quality of the single individual image is adjusted as the output condition of the single individual image.

17. The display method of the display apparatus as claimed in claim 15, further comprising a step of detecting brightness of surroundings of display means,

wherein when supply sources supplying the single individual image and the other another individual image are the same, adjustment of the image quality of the single individual image or change of the display form of the single individual image is executed as the output condition of the single individual image, based on the detected brightness, and

when the supply sources supplying the single individual image and the another individual image are different, adjustment of the image quality of the single individual image or change of the display form of the single individual image is not executed as the output condition of the single individual image, based on the detected brightness.