JP2014061729A - Display apparatus for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lighten the burden of information recognition on a user although letting a user feel a predetermined image transitioning.SOLUTION: There is provided a display apparatus for vehicle comprising: a display device 20 which displays an image in a display region 20a; and control means 50 for controlling the display operation of the display device 20. The image displayed in the display region 20a moves to the outside 20b of the display region. The control means 50 make a first image displayed in the display region 20a gradually move from the display region 20a to the outside 20b of the display region, and also gradually displays a second image 6 in the display region 20a, and the second image 6 is displayed perfectly in the display region 20a after the first image 5 moves from the display region 20a to the outside 20b of the display region.

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle display device mounted on an automobile or the like.

  As a conventional vehicle display device, for example, there is one disclosed in Patent Document 1. The vehicle display device disclosed in Patent Document 1 is configured as a vehicle meter unit, and at least one image functional component that is an image meter that displays an acquired meter indication value is displayed on a display screen. Meter display means for displaying on the display so as to be switchable between a first display mode and a second display mode in which layouts of image functional parts to be displayed are different from each other, and the first display mode and the second display mode When the image function component to be displayed in both is set as a common image function component and switched to the first display mode and the second display mode, the common image function component is displayed in the first display mode. A video showing a transition process of transition from the (first position) to the display position (second position) in the second display mode is represented as a mode transition animation. Display control means for, those equipped with.

Japanese Patent No. 4442672

    In the vehicular display device according to Patent Literature 1, when a predetermined image is transitioned from the first position to the second position, the image before transition and the image after transition can be visually recognized to some extent.

  However, when a plurality of images are displayed simultaneously when switching the display, there is a problem that the driver feels uncomfortable. Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a vehicle display device that can be safely recognized by a driver without a sense of incompatibility when switching displays in a vehicle display device having a flat panel. For the purpose.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular display device that can reduce a user's information recognition load when switching a predetermined image.

Therefore, the present invention includes display means for displaying an image in the display area, and control means for controlling the display operation of the display means, and the image displayed in the display area is outside the display area. A vehicle display device that transitions,
In the display area, the first image and the second image are displayed so as to overlap at least partially,
The control means gradually transitions the first image displayed in the display area to the outside of the display area,
The second image is gradually displayed in the display area, and after the first image transitions from the display area to the second position, the second image is displayed in the display area.
It is characterized by that.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when switching a predetermined image, a user's information recognition load can be reduced.

(A) is a front view of the instrument apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. (B) is the sectional view on the AA line of the instrument apparatus shown to Fig.1 (a). It is a block diagram for demonstrating the electric constitution of the meter apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. (A)-(e) is a figure for demonstrating the image transition process which a control means performs, and is the figure which represented the image displayed on the display area of a display apparatus in time series.

A vehicle display device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The vehicle display device according to the present embodiment is an instrument device 100 that is mounted on a vehicle and that notifies a user (vehicle driver) of a vehicle speed and the like, as shown in FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 1 (b), the instrument device 100 includes an instrument body 1, a front case 2, and a back case 3. The instrument device 100 is configured by the front case 2 and the back case 3 housing and combining the instrument body 1. The front case 2 is located on the front side of the instrument body 1 and the back case 3 is located on the back side.

Here, “front” means the user side when the instrument device 100 is viewed from the front (that is, when the user confirms the vehicle speed or the like when viewing the instrument device 100 from the front), and “back” is the opposite. Side (refer to FIG. 1B). The overhead direction of the user who viewed the instrument device 100 is called “up”, the opposite direction is called “down”, and the left and right directions viewed from this user are called “left” and “right” (see FIG. 1A). ).

The instrument body 1 includes a circuit board 10, a display device 20, a pointer-type instrument 30, a main case 40, and a display board 41.

The circuit board 10 is composed of a printed circuit board on which the control means 50 is mounted. The base material of the circuit board 10 is made of, for example, glass epoxy resin, and a through hole 10a through which a rotation shaft 31a of a motor 31 described later is passed is formed in this base material. The control means 50 is an electronic circuit including various electronic components such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and is electrically connected to the outside of the instrument device 100, the display device 20, the motor 31 and the like. The control means 50 drives and controls the display device 20, the motor 31 and the like according to a signal (for example, a signal of vehicle speed data) supplied from the outside such as an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) 60 described later.

The display device 20 displays images for notifying various states on the display area 20a under the control of the control means 50. The TFT (Thin Film Transistor) type liquid crystal panel 21 and the back located on the back side thereof are displayed. And a liquid crystal display having a light 22. The backlight 22 transmits and illuminates the liquid crystal panel 21, and is composed of a light guide plate and a light source 22a composed of an LED (Light Emitting Diode). In addition, the display apparatus 20 may be comprised from an organic E (Electro-Luminescence) display.

The pointer-type meter 30 includes a motor 31, a pointer 32 that is rotated by the motor 31, and an index unit 410 that is instructed by the pointer 32.

The motor 31 is composed of, for example, a stepping motor, and is attached to the back side of the circuit board 10. The motor 31 has a rotating shaft 31a that extends from the back side of the circuit board 10 toward the front side through the through hole 10a. The motor 31 rotates the rotating shaft 31 a under the control of the control means 50.

The pointer 32 is attached to the rotary shaft 31a. The pointer 32 rotates on the display board 41 located on the front side of the main case 40 by the rotation of the rotation shaft 31a, and points to the indicator portion 410 formed on the display board 41. The display board 41 and the indicator part 410 will be described later. Since the control means 50 rotates the rotating shaft 31a of the motor 31 at a rotation angle corresponding to the vehicle speed data supplied from the outside, the pointer 32 rotates at an angle corresponding to the speed and instructs the indicator unit 410. Can do. The pointer-type meter 30 notifies the user of the speed of the vehicle by causing the pointer 32 and the indicator unit 410 to be read in comparison.

The main case 40 is made of synthetic resin or the like. The circuit board 10 is attached to the back side of the main case 40, and the display board 41 is attached to the front side thereof.

The display board 41 is configured by forming an indicator 410 or the like on a plate-like base material having translucency. The indicator part 410 is a part representing the scale 411 and the characters (including numbers) 412 on the display board 41, for example, and is formed on the base material. The indicator portion 410 is formed, for example, by printing or painting on the base material. The indicator portion 410 is formed so that, for example, the scale 411 and the character 412 are translucent and the periphery thereof has a light-shielding property (so-called extracted characters). For example, as shown in FIG. 1A, the indicator portion 410 is formed in an arc shape centering on the rotation shaft 31a. Further, the display plate 41 is formed with a through hole 41a through which the rotation shaft 31a passes and an opening 42b that exposes the display area 20a of the display device 20.

As shown in FIG. 1A, the front case 2 includes a transmissive member 2a and a light shielding case 2b. The transmissive member 2a is made of, for example, glass or synthetic resin having visible light permeability. The light shielding case 2b is made of, for example, a hard synthetic resin and is black and shields light. The transmissive member 2a and the light shielding case 2b are fitted by a protrusion or the like which one or both have, thereby constituting the front side case 2.

The back case 3 is made of, for example, a hard synthetic resin and is formed in a box shape with a front opening. The front side case 2 and the back side case 3 are combined so as to sandwich the instrument body 10 by a protrusion or the like that one or both have.

Next, the electrical configuration of the instrument device 100 will be described with reference to FIG. The control means 50 performs processing for controlling the entire instrument device 100, and the liquid crystal panel 21, the light source 22 a, the motor 31, the microcontroller (microcomputer) 51, and the speed sensor 61 are electrically connected. ing.

  The microcomputer 51 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), an input / output interface, and the like. In the microcomputer 51, for example, the CPU 52 reads and executes a predetermined program stored in advance in the ROM 53 and uses image data stored in the ROM 53 at that time, thereby performing predetermined processing (particularly, image transition described later). Process). The RAM 54 functions as a working memory when the CPU 52 performs processing. The speed sensor 61 measures the speed (vehicle speed) of the vehicle and supplies the measured vehicle speed to the microcomputer 51.

  Next, image transition processing executed by the microcomputer 51 will be described with reference to FIG. For example, the microcomputer 51 starts processing when the display device 20 is instructed to switch display from audio information to vehicle information.

In this embodiment, as an example, a case will be described in which the display of an image (shown in FIGS. 3A to 3E) displayed in the display area 20a of the display device 20 is switched. The image shown in FIG. 3A is a display of the first image 5 that is a notification image including the audio information, the driving situation, the fuel remaining amount, and the like displayed in the display area 20a.
The audio information notifies the user of the name of the currently reproduced (or selected) song name and information about the song name (recorded album image, length of time of the song).

The image shown in FIG. 3B displays a state in which a transition by a slide-out animation or the like has started from the position where the first image 5 was displayed to the outside of the display area 20b. When the transition of the first image 5 is started, the second image 6 for informing the user of the average fuel consumption, the total travel distance, and the like is displayed in the display area 20a by fading-in animation or the like while gradually increasing the luminance. Start to be.

In the image shown in FIG. 3C, the first image 5 is displayed during the transition from the display area 20a to the outside of the display area 20b. As the first image 5 transitions, the area where the second image 6 is displayed becomes larger and the luminance is displayed higher.

  In the image shown in FIG. 3D, the first image 5 is displayed during the transition from the display area 20a to the outside of the display area 20b. The second image 6 is displayed in the display area 20a while further increasing the luminance as compared with FIG. 3 (d).

  The image shown in FIG. 3E displays a state in which the transition of the first image 5 to the outside of the display area 20b is completed and the luminance adjustment in the display area 20a of the second image 6 is also completed. .

As described above, the display device 20 that displays an image in the display region 20a and the control unit 50 that controls the display operation of the display device 20 are provided, and the image displayed in the display region 20a is outside the display region. In the vehicular display device that transitions to 20b, the control means 50 gradually transitions the first image 5 displayed in the display area 20a from the display area 20a to the outside of the display area 20b, and the second image. 6 is gradually displayed in the display area 20a, and after the first image 5 has transitioned from the display area 20a to the outside of the display area 20b, the second image 6 is completely displayed in the display area 20a. Since the switching is gradually performed, it becomes possible for the driver to safely recognize the information without feeling uncomfortable.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Instrument apparatus 1 Instrument body 5 1st image 6 2nd image 10 Circuit board 20 Display apparatus (display means) 20a Display area 20b Outside display area 30 Pointer-type instrument 50 Control means

Claims (1)

A vehicle display comprising: display means for displaying an image in a display area; and control means for controlling a display operation of the display means, wherein the image displayed in the display area transitions outside the display area. A device,
In the display area, the first image and the second image are displayed so as to overlap at least partially,
The control means gradually transitions the first image displayed in the display area to the outside of the display area,
The second image is gradually displayed in the display area, and after the first image has transitioned from the display area to the outside of the display area, the second image is displayed in the display area.
A display device for a vehicle.

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