Display system

• US 8,004,395 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2005
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hamachi, Jun, Oda, Kouichi, Yoda, Kazuhiko, Fujimoto, Fumiaki, Aoki, Toshiya, Okamoto, Toshiya
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham; Lam P
• Application Number:
  US11/574,148
• Publication Number:
  US 20080309474A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,196 Days
• Field of Search: 340/438, 340/995.1, 340459-462, 340/995.14, 709201-205, 345/418, 345/502, 345/505, 701211-213
• US Class Current: 340/438
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/11 Graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/155 Virtual instruments
• 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 35/213 Virtual instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/125 wherein one of the images is motion video
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/02 Graphics controller able to handle multiple formats, e.g. input or output formats
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/022 using memory planes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

An instrument panel display system displays vehicle information, amenity information, and safety information as images. In this instrument panel display system, data (image data, image layout data, and image output control data) for displaying the images are generated in a shared manner by a vehicle system processor, an amenity system processor, and a safety system processor. On account of this, the stability of image display on an instrument panel of a vehicle or the like is improved and hence safety of driving is increased.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a display system mounted on a controllable movable body;

a display device included in the display system, the display device being arranged to simultaneously display images respectively corresponding to different sets of information including information about the controllable movable body, amenity information, and safety information; and

a plurality of processors;

wherein

data is generated by the plurality of processors in a shared manner to display the respective images;

the data includes image data and image layout data;

at least one of size, position, and overlap of the image layout data of the respective images is changed such that a positional relationship between the respective images displayed on the display device changes in response to the information about the controllable movable body; and

the plurality of processors are arranged to correspond to respective sets of information and to generate data to display the corresponding sets of information as images.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a display control device arranged to generate images to be displayed by using the data generated by the plurality of processors.