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US 8,004,395 · App. 11/574,148 · Granted Aug 23, 2011

Display system

Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent No.
US 8,004,395
App. No.
11/574,148
Granted
Aug 23, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An instrument panel display system displays vehicle information, amenity information, and safety information as images. In this instrument panel display system, data (image data, image layout data, and image output control data) for displaying the images are generated in a shared manner by a vehicle system processor, an amenity system processor, and a safety system processor. On account of this, the stability of image display on an instrument panel of a vehicle or the like is improved and hence safety of driving is increased.

Claims (9)

1. A system comprising:

a display system mounted on a controllable movable body;

a display device included in the display system, the display device being arranged to simultaneously display images respectively corresponding to different sets of information including information about the controllable movable body, amenity information, and safety information; and

a plurality of processors; wherein

data is generated by the plurality of processors in a shared manner to display the respective images;

the data includes image data and image layout data;

at least one of size, position, and overlap of the image layout data of the respective images is changed such that a positional relationship between the respective images displayed on the display device changes in response to the information about the controllable movable body; and

the plurality of processors are arranged to correspond to respective sets of information and to generate data to display the corresponding sets of information as images.

2. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising a display control device arranged to generate images to be displayed by using the data generated by the plurality of processors.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2007
From: OKAMOTO, TOSHIYA; AOKI, TOSHIYA; ODA, KOUICHI; HAMACHI, JUN; FUJIMOTO, FUMIAKI; YODA, KAZUHIKO
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2004-244413 · Aug 24, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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