Vehicle Display Virtual Image Priority Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle display devices face difficulties in allowing users to intuitively recognize the priority of information, especially when multiple types of information are displayed simultaneously, making it hard to determine which information is most important.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle display device that uses a reflecting member with semi-transparent properties and an image output device to create a virtual image in front of the display portion, combined with light emitting elements and a controller to control light emission, ensuring that high-priority information is prominently displayed by projecting forward and being clearer than non-priority information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple types of information are displayed on the same screen of meters, then the quantity of information displayed is improved, but the ease of recognizing priority information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dimensionality change by displaying information at different depths using a half-silvered mirror. High-priority information is displayed as a virtual image in front of the meter screen, while low-priority information remains on the screen itself. This creates a depth dimension that allows users to intuitively distinguish priority levels without cluttering the two-dimensional screen space.
Solution Approach 2:
The half-silvered mirror acts as an intermediary element that enables the superposition of virtual and real images. It reflects light from the display screen while simultaneously allowing light from the virtual image to pass through, creating a layered display effect that preserves both high and low priority information with clear visual hierarchy.
2Device complexity
If information is displayed on the same screen without spatial separation, then the device complexity is reduced, but the measurement precision of information priority deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a depth dimension using a half-silvered mirror to create virtual images in front of the display screen. This allows high-priority information to be positioned in the foreground while low-priority information remains in the background, providing precise visual indication of information priority without adding complex software or processing systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances display performance by allowing users to intuitively recognize high-priority information through the use of virtual images and controlled lighting, ensuring clear visibility of important information amidst multiple data displays.
Implementation Method 1
a reflecting member disposed in front of the display member and having semi-transparent property, and an image output device displaying an image toward the reflecting member are provided, and the reflecting member reflects the image displayed by the image output device to display a virtual image in front of the display member
Implementation Method 2
a light emitting element illuminating the display portion, and a controller controlling light emission behavior of the light emitting element are provided
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AI summary
A combination meter including a first meter and a second meter, which are visible from a front side, and a half-silvered mirror disposed in front of the combination meter and having semi-transparent property are provided. Also, an image output device displays an image toward the half-silvered mirror is provided. The half-silvered mirror reflects the image displayed by the image output device to display a virtual image in front of the meter. Thus, the virtual image is overlappedly displayed with respect to the combination meter, whereby a use intuitively recognizes high priority information.