Vehicle display device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorHideki Ito
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Abstract
A combination meter including a first meter and a second meter, which are visible from a front side, and a half-silvered mirror disposed in front of the combination meter and having semi-transparent property are provided. Also, an image output device displays an image toward the half-silvered mirror is provided. The half-silvered mirror reflects the image displayed by the image output device to display a virtual image in front of the meter. Thus, the virtual image is overlappedly displayed with respect to the combination meter, whereby a use intuitively recognizes high priority information.
Claims6
A vehicle display device comprising:
- a combination meter including a display meter visible from a front side along a front-rear direction of the combination meter;
- a reflecting member disposed in front of the display meter and having semi-transparent property;
- an image output device configured to display a virtual image in front of the combination meter along the front-rear direction by outputting an image toward the reflecting member,
- a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element disposed behind the combination meter along the front-rear direction;
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- a controller programmed to control light emission behavior of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element, wherein
- the display meter includes
- a first meter region which overlaps with the first light emitting element and the virtual image in the front-rear direction, and
- a second meter region which overlaps with the second light emitting element in the front-rear direction and which does not overlap with the virtual image in the front-rear direction, and
- the controller is programmed to control the first light emitting element to emit light at a lower brightness level than the second light emitting element when the image output device displays the virtual image.
A vehicle display device comprising:
- a combination meter including a display meter visible from a front side along a front-rear direction of the combination meter;
- a reflecting member disposed in front of the display meter and having semi-transparent property;
- an image output device configured to display a virtual image in front of the combination meter along the front-rear direction by outputting an image toward the reflecting member,
- a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element disposed behind the combination meter along the front-rear direction;
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- a controlling programmed to control light emission behavior of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element, wherein
- the display meter includes
- a first meter region which overlaps with the first light emitting element and the virtual image in the front-rear direction, and
- a second meter region which overlaps with the second light emitting element in the front-rear direction and which does not overlap with the virtual image in the front-rear direction,
- the controller is programmed to control the first light emitting element to emit light at a lower brightness level than the second light emitting element when the image output device displays the virtual image, and
- the image output device is a 3-D display device that displays a 3-D image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.