DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY PROGRAM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEMORY CONTAINING THE DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20090115592A1
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Hiroyuki, Miake, Aki
• Granted Patent: US 7,852,202 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/459
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/08 Fault-tolerant or redundant circuits, or circuits in which repair of defects is prepared
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/363 Graphics controllers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/393 Arrangements for updating the contents of the bit-mapped memory

Abstract

A display system includes a display device mounted on a vehicle, and a controller arranged to control the display of a plurality of pieces of information regarding the vehicle as an image in the display device. If a display fault occurs in a portion of the display device, the controller performs control to display the information displayed in the display fault area having had the display fault, in a normal display area performing a normal display.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A display system comprising:

a display disposed in a vehicle; and

a controller arranged to perform control so as to display, as an image on the display, a plurality of pieces of information including information about the vehicle;

wherein

the controller performs control so that, in an event of a display fault in a portion of the display, information displayed in a display fault area with the display fault is displayed in a normal display area where normal display is performed.

17. The display system according to claim 16, further comprising:

a pattern storage device arranged to store a plurality of pieces of screen layout data indicating in what layout the plurality of pieces of information, including the information about the vehicle, are displayed on the display; and

an image output control section arranged to generate, based on the screen layout data and the image, display data to be displayed on the display.

18. The display system according to claim 16, further comprising an importance level rank storage device arranged to store importance levels for at least two of the plurality of pieces of information including the information about the vehicle, and an image output control section arranged to perform control, based on ranks stored in the importance level rank storage device, so as to adjust the information to be displayed and display the information in the normal display area.

19. The display system according to claim 17, further comprising a first table storing information on a smallest visible image size when the plurality of pieces of information including the information about the vehicle are displayed as an image, a second table storing at least one or more sets of vertical and horizontal deformation ratios for the image, and the image output control section, based on the first and second tables, deforming the image to be displayed on the display.

20. The display system according to claim 16, further comprising a first table storing information on a smallest visible image size when the plurality of pieces of information including the information about the vehicle is displayed as an image, and an image output control section arranged to perform control, when the plurality of pieces of information including the information about the vehicle are displayed as an image in an image size equal to or smaller than the image size stored in the first table, so as to display the information with numerical values or characters.

21. The display system according to claim 16, further comprising a detector arranged to detect a condition of the display fault area.

22. The display system according to claim 16, further comprising an input device arranged to input data the display fault area.

24. The display system according to claim 17, further comprising an input device arranged to perform at least one of:

adding screen layout data to the pattern storage device;

changing the screen layout data stored in the pattern storage device; and

deleting the screen layout data stored in the pattern storage device.

25. The display system according to claim 18, further comprising an input device arranged to perform at least one of:

adding an importance level to the importance level rank storage device;

changing the importance level stored in the importance level rank storage device; and

deleting the importance level stored in the importance level rank storage device.

26. The display system according to claim 19, further comprising an input device perform at least one of:

adding information on a smallest visible image size to the first table;

changing the information on a smallest visible image size stored in the first table; and

deleting the information on a smallest visible image size stored in the first table.

27. The display system according to claim 19, further comprising an input device arranged to perform at least one of:

adding vertical and horizontal deformation ratios to the second table;

changing the vertical and horizontal deformation ratios stored in the second table; and

deleting the vertical and horizontal deformation ratios stored in the second table.

28. A computer-readable storage medium storing a display program that when executed on a computer included in a display system according to claim 16, causes the computer to perform the following steps:

a step of performing control by the controller so as to display, as an image on the display, the plurality of pieces of information including the information on the vehicle; and

a step of displaying, on the display, display data generated by the step of performing control.

29. A display method performed by the display system according claim 16, the display method comprising:

a step of performing control by the controller so as to display, as an image on the display, the plurality of pieces of information including the information on the vehicle; and

a step of displaying, on the display, display data generated by the control step.

23. A display device disposed in a vehicle, comprising:

a display arranged to display, as an image, a plurality of pieces of information including information about the vehicle; and

a controller arranged to perform control so that, in an event of a display fault in a portion of the display, an image displayed in a display fault area with the display fault is displayed in a normal display area where normal display is performed.