Display apparatus and meter for vehicle

A meter for a vehicle comprising:

• a display for displaying a current vehicle condition;
• an analog image generator for generating an analog image, which continuously shows the current vehicle condition as a plurality of indexes;
• a digital image generator for generating a digital image, which shows the current vehicle condition as a discrete numeral;
• a synthetic image generator for generating a synthetic image of the analog image and the digital image;
• and
• a controller for controlling the display to display the synthetic image,
• wherein a display position of the analog image corresponding to the current vehicle speed is fixed at a predetermined position of the display,
• wherein each index provides a corresponding vehicle condition value,
• wherein display dimensions of each index are reduced as the corresponding vehicle condition value becomes larger than the current vehicle condition value,
• wherein the plurality of indexes are arranged on both of an upside and a downside of the predetermined position of the display, and
• wherein the digital image is overlapped on the analog image at the predetermined position of the display.

A method for displaying a current vehicle condition on a display comprising:

• displaying a plurality of indexes for continuously showing the current vehicle condition, wherein each index provides a corresponding vehicle condition value, wherein display dimensions of each index are reduced as the corresponding vehicle condition value becomes larger than the current vehicle condition value, wherein a display position of one of the plurality of indexes corresponding to the current vehicle speed is fixed to an origin position of the display, and wherein the plurality of indexes are arranged on both of an upside and a downside of the origin position;
• displacing the plurality of indexes in an up-down direction of the display according to the current vehicle condition;
• displaying a discrete numeral for showing the current vehicle condition value;
• overlapping the discrete numeral on the plurality of indexes at the origin position of the display;
• and
• changing the discrete numeral to correspond with the current vehicle condition value.