Display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10810703-B2
Application number	US-201715729856-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2017
Priority date	Oct 14, 2016
Publication date	Oct 20, 2020
Grant date	Oct 20, 2020

Abstract

A display device includes a display section configured to display images, and a controller configured to control the display section to display an indicator-needle motion-blurred image from an entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is an image previously stored in a storage unit and represents an afterimage corresponding to an entire rotation range within which an indicator needle is capable of rotating, the indicator-needle motion-blurred image representing an afterimage of the indicator needle that corresponds to a rotation range within which the indicator needle rotates per unit time when rotated. Consequently, the display device is effective at enabling the indicator needle to be appropriately displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a display configured to display an image;
a storage storing an entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image that represents an afterimage corresponding to an entire rotation range within which an indicator needle is capable of rotating, and that is an image continuous in a circumferential direction thereof; and
a controller configured to control the display to display an indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is a portion of the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image,
wherein the indicator-needle motion-blurred image represents an afterimage of the indicator needle that corresponds to a rotation range within which the indicator needle rotates per unit time when rotated,.
wherein the controller is further configured to:
control the display to display an indicator needle image at a forward end of the indicator-needle motion-blurred image in a direction of rotating of the indicator needle, the indicator needle image representing the indicator needle, and
control the display to display the indicator-needle motion-blurred image and the indicator needle image such that, as a rotation amount per the unit time that the indicator needle reaches when rotated increases, a length of the indicator-needle motion-blurred image along a tip end of the indicator needle and a length of the indicator needle image along the tip end of the indicator needle are longer than respective lengths of the indicator-needle motion-blurred image along a base end of the indicator needle and the indicator-needle motion-blurred image along a base end of the indicator needle.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is mounted on an instrument panel installed in a vehicle, and the display device displays vehicle information.

3. A display device comprising:
a display configured to display an image; and
a controller configured to control the display to display an indicator-needle motion-blurred image from an entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is an image previously stored in a storage and represents an afterimage corresponding to an entire rotation range within which an indicator needle is capable of rotating and that is an image continuous in a circumferential direction thereof, the indicator-needle motion-blurred image representing an afterimage of the indicator needle that corresponds to a rotation range within which the indicator needle rotates per unit time when rotated,
wherein the controller generates the indicator-needle motion-blurred image by cutting out a range corresponding to the rotation range per unit time from the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image stored in the storage, or by generating an image having a mask image of a background color superimposed on the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image stored in the storage and removing a range of the mask image corresponding to the rotation range per unit time
wherein the controller is further configured to:
control the display to display an indicator needle image at a forward end of the indicator-needle motion-blurred image in a direction of rotating of the indicator needle, the indicator needle image representing the indicator needle, and
control the display to display the indicator-needle motion-blurred image and the indicator needle image such that, as a rotation amount per the unit time that the indicator needle reaches when rotated increases, a length of the indicator-needle motion-blurred image along a tip end of the indicator needle and a length of the indicator needle image along the tip end of the indicator needle are longer than respective lengths of the indicator-needle motion-blurred image along a base end of the indicator needle and the indicator-needle motion-blurred image along a base end of the indicator needle.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to generate a sectorial indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is the portion of the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image from the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image, and
the sectorial indicator-needle motion-blurred image represents the afterimage of the indicator needle that corresponds to the rotation range within which the indicator needle rotates per unit time when rotated.

5. The display device according to claim 3 , wherein
the indicator-needle motion-blurred image is a sectorial image, and
the controller generates the indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is the sectorial image by cutting out the range corresponding to the rotation range per unit time from the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image stored in the storage, or by generating the image having the mask image of the background color superimposed on the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image stored in the storage and removing the range of the mask image corresponding to the rotation range per unit time.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image has a shape of a circle.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Maeda Tomohiro
• Suyama Masakatsu
• Ono Takayuki
• Kobayashi Kaori

Classifications

• G06T11/26

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• B60K35/50

  Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle (B60K35/231 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60K35/214 Primary

  Variable gauge scales, e.g. scale enlargement to adapt to maximum driving speed · CPC title

• B60K35/81

  for controlling displays · CPC title

• B60K35/60 Primary

  Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles (arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10) · CPC title