ONBOARD DISPLAY DEVICE, ONBOARD DISPLAY SYSTEM AND VEHICLE

• US 20080252439A1
• Filed: 04/15/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Toshiya, Yamamoto, Takeshi, Miake, Aki, Itoh, Megumi, Okuda, Mitsukazu, Abe, Takeo, Doi, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US12/103,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20080252439A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/461
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An onboard display device in accordance with the present invention includes a display section (11) attached to an instrument panel of a vehicle. The section (11) has a second display area (11b) and a first display area (11a). The second display area (11b) shows at least the speed as vehicle condition images indicating the conditions of the vehicle. The first display area (11a) shows a navigation image and other secondary images. The display section (11) measures greater in width than in height with an aspect ratio of 7:3 or greater. The aspect ratio is the width/height ratio of a display area. The onboard display device allows for a visibility-improved simultaneous display of the secondary image, such as a navigation image, and the vehicle condition image, such as a speed display, which presents information on the conditions of the vehicle.

Claims

1. An onboard display device attached to an instrument panel of a vehicle, comprising:

a display screen that is greater in width than in height and having an aspect ratio that is equal to or greater than approximately 7;

3, the aspect ratio being a width/height ratio of the display screen, said display section including a first display area in which a secondary image including information other than information of the vehicle is displayed, and a second display area in which vehicle condition images including information of the vehicle are displayed; and

a display control section arranged to control how the secondary image and the vehicle condition images are displayed, said display control section using a portion of the second display area so as to produce an enlarged view of the secondary image, and said display control section fixing one of the vertical lines of the secondary image at a left-hand side or a right-hand side of the secondary image and moving a vertical display line at an unfixed end, so as to scale up the secondary image.

2. A vehicle comprising the onboard display device of claim 1.