US 7,963,656 B2 · Vehicular meter unit and display device

Abstract

In a first display mode, a common image function component is displayed to occupy at least a part of a display region of a second specific image function component. In a second display mode, the common image function component is continuously displayed outside the second specific image function component to avoid the overlap therebetween (i.e., such that an exclusive positional relationship is made therebetween). When the display mode is switched, a final transition of the display mode to a display state in the second display mode is made while or after a moving image showing a transition process, in which the common image function component is moved from a display position in the first display mode to a display position in the second display mode, is displayed as a mode transition animation.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A display device comprising:

a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are formed in a matrix shape;
and
a control means for switching a display of the display panel among a first display image indicating first information, a contraction image indicating the first information in a size contracted from the first display image and in a form different from the first display image, and an intermediate image indicating the first information in the same size as the first display image and in a form that is the same as or similar to the contraction image, wherein
when the display is switched between the first display image and the contraction image, the display is switched to the intermediate image in the course of the switching of the display.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/926,992Filed 22 Dec 2010 · division

Priority

JP 2007-0977953 Apr 2007

Published

US 2011/0090074 A121 Apr 2011

Granted

21 Jun 2011

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

B60K 35/60
Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles: instruments characterised by their location or relative…
B60K 35/213
Using visual output, e.g. blinking lights or matrix displays: virtual instruments
B60K 35/22
Using visual output, e.g. blinking lights or matrix displays: display screens
B60K 35/20
Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles: output arrangements, i.e. from vehicle to user,…

Vehicular meter unit and display device

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Vehicular meter unit and display device

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Abstract

Claims4