Vehicular display device for directly and indirectly displaying information
First Claim
1. A display device for a vehicle comprising:
- a display unit displaying a display image on front and rear face sides thereof, said display images displayed on the front and rear face sides being a mirror image relationship with each other; and
an optical member for inverting said display image displayed on the rear face side;
wherein said display image displayed on the front face side is directly seen by a driver, and said display image displayed on the rear face side is (1) inverted by said optical member, so as to be seen in the same direction of said display image displayed on the front face side and (2) projected onto a combiner or a windshield glass,wherein the projection of the inverted image is controlled by changing the reflectivity of the optical member.
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Abstract
A display device for a transportation includes: a display unit displaying a display image on front and rear face sides, the display images displayed on the rear face side being in mirror image relationship with each other; and an optical member for inverting the display image displayed on the rear face side; wherein the display image displayed on the front face side is directly seen by a driver and the display image displayed on the rear face side is inverted by the optical member, so as to see in the same direction of the display image displayed on the front face side. The above display unit may be constituted by a light source having plural color spectra; an attenuation filter in which a transmittance for light emitted from the light source can be partly changed by an external signal; and a transparent light guide plate which guides light emitted from the light source to at least one of front and rear faces of the attenuation filter.
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1. A display device for a vehicle comprising:
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a display unit displaying a display image on front and rear face sides thereof, said display images displayed on the front and rear face sides being a mirror image relationship with each other; and an optical member for inverting said display image displayed on the rear face side; wherein said display image displayed on the front face side is directly seen by a driver, and said display image displayed on the rear face side is (1) inverted by said optical member, so as to be seen in the same direction of said display image displayed on the front face side and (2) projected onto a combiner or a windshield glass, wherein the projection of the inverted image is controlled by changing the reflectivity of the optical member. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16)
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14. A display device for a vehicle comprising:
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a display unit displaying a display image on front and rear face sides thereof, said display images displayed on the front and rear face sides being in mirror image relationship with each other; an optical member for inverting said display image displayed on the rear face side; and a liquid crystal shutter disposed one of said front and rear face sides, said liquid crystal shutter controlling the luminance of the one of said face sides to control the information being displayed by the one of said face sides; wherein said display image displayed on the front face side is directly seen by a driver, and said display image displayed on the rear face side is (1) inverted by said optical member, so as to be seen in the same direction of said display image displayed on the front face side and (2) projected onto a combiner or a windshield glass. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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