Vehicle display device

Inventor: Junya Nakano (Shizuoka, JP)

Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION

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Patent No.: US 10,759,347
App. No.: 15/682,932
Granted: Sep 1, 2020
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A vehicle display device includes a tubular member disposed such that an opening edge thereof faces a driver side, a projection unit that projects light toward an inner space of the tubular member, a semitransparent mirror that is disposed in the inner space of the tubular member and reflects light projected from the projection unit toward the driver side to cause a virtual image to be displayed, an image display unit that is disposed on a side opposite to the driver side with respect to the semitransparent mirror in the tubular member and displays an image, and a design unit that is disposed between the image display unit and the semitransparent mirror in the inner space of the tubular member and has a stereoscopic shape.

Claims (51)

1. A vehicle display device, comprising:

a tubular member that includes an inner space and an opening edge that faces a driver side;

a projection device disposed on a lower portion of the tubular member that includes an image display surface that faces upward and projects a first image toward the inner space of the tubular member;

a semitransparent mirror that is disposed in the inner space of the tubular member, and reflects light of the first image projected from the image display surface of the projection device toward the driver side to cause a virtual image to be displayed;

an image display device that is disposed on a side opposite to the driver side with respect to the semitransparent mirror in the tubular member, and includes a display surface that displays a second image; and

a design device that includes a surface that is disposed between the image display device and the semitransparent mirror in the inner space of the tubular member, and the surface of the design device is a semitransparent surface or a transparent surface that has a shape such that the design device produces a stereoscopic image of the virtual image that conforms to the shape of the surface of the design device; and

a controller in electrical communication with each of the projection device and the image display device and configured to command each of the projection device and the image display device on a content of the first image and a content the second image, respectively, wherein

the virtual image is displayed such that at least a part of the virtual image overlaps with the design device,

the projection device is configured to produce the content of the first image in accordance with a first command received from the controller, and

the image display device is configured to produce the content of the second image in accordance with a second command received from the controller.

2. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein the projection device projects an image and causes the image to be displayed as a virtual image.

3. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the image display device is positioned on a side opposite to the driver side with respect to a position at which the virtual image is formed.

4. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

the image display device is positioned on a side opposite to the driver side with respect to a position at which the virtual image is formed.

5. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the design device is a transparent member, and

an image in the image display device is capable of being viewed from the driver side through the design device.

6. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

the design device is a transparent member, and

an image in the image display device is capable of being viewed from the driver side through the design device.

7. The vehicle display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the design device is a transparent member, and

an image in the image display device is capable of being viewed from the driver side through the design device.

8. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the projection device projects an image and causes the image to be displayed as a virtual image, and

when a position of a display image is changed and the display image overlaps with the design device, the vehicle display device causes the projection device to display a part of the display image overlapping with the design device as a virtual image, and causes the image display device to display a remaining part of the display image as an actual image.

9. The vehicle display device according to claim 3 , wherein

the projection device projects an image and causes the image to be displayed as a virtual image, and

10. The vehicle display device according to claim 5 , wherein

the projection device projects an image and causes the image to be displayed as a virtual image, and

11. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , further comprising: