Display apparatus for vehicle and method of controlling the same

A display apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

• a cockpit part comprising an opening;
• a guide part mounted within the cockpit part;
• a display unit disposed within the cockpit part, moved along the guide part so that the display unit has a curved line-shaped moving path and configured to appear and disappear through the opening;
• a driving part configured to provide electric power to the display unit so that the display unit is moved on the guide part;
• an air gesture detection part installed in the cockpit part and configured to detect a movement of a passenger;
• and
• a control part configured to control an operation of the display unit in response to a gesture signal from the air gesture detection part,
• wherein the air gesture detection part comprises:
• an air sensor part configured to scan a movement of the passenger;
• and
• an air gesture recognition part configured to recognize an air gesture corresponding to the movement of the passenger,
• wherein the control part controls an operation of a display screen of the display unit in response to the air gesture recognized by the air gesture recognition part;
• and
• wherein the air gesture detection part comprises:
• a first air gesture detection part installed at a top of the cockpit part through which the display unit appears and disappears;
• a second air gesture detection part installed on a front surface of the cockpit part so that the second air gesture detection part is closer to a passenger than the first air gesture detection part;
• and
• a third air gesture detection part installed in a central partition part of the cockpit part.

A method of controlling a display apparatus for a vehicle in which a protruding height of a display unit that protrudes to an outside through an opening of a cockpit part based on a plurality of display modes is adjusted in multiple stages, the method comprising:

• determining whether a start-up of the vehicle has become on;
• activating the display unit when it is determined that the start-up of the vehicle has become on;
• determining whether a display mode of the activated display unit is a standard mode;
• and
• changing the display mode into the standard mode when it is determined that the display mode is not the standard mode;
• wherein the plurality of display modes comprises:
• the standard mode;
• a reduction mode in which a protruding height of the display unit is smaller than a protruding height of the display unit in the standard mode;
• and
• an extension mode in which a protruding height of the display unit is greater than the protruding height of the display unit in the standard mode.