Display unit for vehicle

A car display unit for changing display of different screens based on an input signal fed through an input section for accepting predetermined operation input, said car display unit comprising:

• a screen change section for changing a displayed screen among the screens based on the input signal fed through the input section;
• a display signal generation section, when said screen change section changes one screen to a different screen, being responsive to the screen change for generating and outputting a video signal for displaying the different screen;
• a liquid crystal display section having a plurality of pixels and being responsive to a signal level of the video signal input for each pixel for changing voltage applied to liquid crystal of each pixel part in a predetermined change range and changing transmittance of light for display, thereby displaying the screen corresponding to the video signal;
• an average level calculation section, when said screen change section changes one screen to a different screen, being responsive to the screen change for calculating an average level by averaging the signal level of the video signal input for each pixel of said liquid crystal display section, generated said display signal generation section about the pixels of the whole screen displayed by the video signals or the pixels in a part area of the screen;
• a storage section for storing information for specifying a plurality of the change ranges of the applied voltage preset in a one-to-one correspondence with partial areas into which an area in which the average level calculated by said average level calculation section can change is divided;
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• a brightness level control section, when said screen change section changes one screen to a different screen, being responsive to the screen change for specifying the change range of the applied voltage corresponding to the partial area to which the average level indicated by the calculation result of said average level calculation section belongs based on the information stored in said storage section and instructing said liquid crystal display section to change the applied voltage in the specified change range.