Information display apparatus
AssigneeMaxell, Ltd.
InventorsKoji Hirata, Yasuhiko Kunii
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Abstract
In an information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle, an information display apparatus capable of acquiring a lot of pieces of image information while reducing point-of-view motion of a viewer is provided. An information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle includes a first information display apparatus displaying image information of a virtual image by allowing a windshield glass of a vehicle to reflect light, a second information display apparatus acquiring a practical image by scanning the windshield glass with laser light using a MEMS element and a third information display apparatus using an instrument panel of the vehicle.
Claims12
An information display apparatus displaying image information onto a vehicle comprising:
- a first information display apparatus and a second information display apparatus arranged between a windshield glass of the vehicle and an instrument panel of the vehicle,
- wherein the instrument panel includes a direct-view type image display apparatus,
- the first information display apparatus includes a virtual-image optical system displaying an image based on a virtual image onto a forward part of the vehicle by allowing a concave mirror to reflect light emitted from the image display apparatus displaying the image information, and allowing the windshield glass to reflect the reflected light, and
- the second information display apparatus includes a practical-image optical system acquiring a practical image by projecting the light onto the windshield glass so that the practical image corresponds to the virtual image created by the first information display apparatus,
- the first information display apparatus, the second information display apparatus and the instrument panel are arranged so that a center of a display position of each displayed image is near a line including a rotational center axis of a steering of the vehicle,
- when a viewer who is a driver of the vehicle views the forward part of the vehicle, a first display region based on the first information display apparatus, a second display region based on the second information display apparatus, and a third display region based on the instrument panel are arranged in a vertical direction from an upper side to a lower side in this order,
- the virtual image displayed in the first display region is arranged to be farther than the practical image displayed in the second display region in a depth direction, and
- a horizontal-directional display position of the image to be displayed by at least one of the first information display apparatus and the second information display apparatus is changed in at least one of the first display region and the second display region in accordance with a speed of the vehicle so that the larger the speed is, the closer the display position is to a front side, while the smaller the speed is, the closer the display position is to a right or left side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.