DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• US 20160314752A1
• Filed: 04/22/2016
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Nakano, Junya, Matsunaga, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 11,807,096 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/113 Scrolling through menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/115 Selection of menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/139 Clusters of instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/165 Videos and animations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/113 Scrolling through menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/115 Selection of menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/139 Clusters of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/165 Videos and animations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0261 in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/02 Handling of images in compressed format, e.g. JPEG, MPEG
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/04 Display device controller operating with a plurality of display units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3611 Control of matrices with row and column drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A display device for a vehicle includes: a first image control section that displays a first entire image in a certain entire display region; a second image control section that displays a second entire image that is changed from the first entire image in the certain entire display region; and an intermediate image control section that displays a single intermediate entire image indicating an intermediate stage of a change between the first entire image and the second entire image in the certain entire display region. The second image control section displays a final display state in which a certain mark is displayed in a certain portion within the certain display region as the second entire image. The intermediate image control section displays the intermediate entire image having an afterimage of the certain mark being extended in a track direction on a track of the certain mark moving to the certain portion.

Claims

1. A display device for a vehicle, which performs information display by a liquid crystal display, the display device comprising:

a first image control section that displays a first entire image in a certain entire display region of the liquid crystal display;

a second image control section that displays a second entire image that is changed from the first entire image displayed by the first image control section in the certain entire display region; and

an intermediate image control section that displays a single intermediate entire image indicating an intermediate stage of a change between the first entire image by the first image control section and the second entire image by the second image control section in the certain entire display region,

wherein the second image control section displays a final display state in which a certain mark is displayed in a certain portion within the certain display region as the second entire image, and

wherein the intermediate image control section displays the intermediate entire image having an afterimage of the certain mark being extended in a track direction on a track of the certain mark moving to the certain portion.

2. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the afterimage is a gradation image in which gradation is changed in an extended direction.

3. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the second image control section displays the second entire image changed from the first entire image when instruction contents from a vehicle crew are input thereto.

4. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the first image control section and the second image control section display a plurality of state marks corresponding to a plurality of states of the vehicle in each entire image as a plurality of the certain marks, and

wherein the second image control section displays the second entire image in which an arrangement of the plurality of state marks is changed from the first entire image.

5. The display device for a vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein each of the first image control section and the second image control section displays a still image whose position is not changed in the first entire image and the second entire image, and

wherein the intermediate image control section displays the afterimage overlapping the still images in an overlapping manner.