公开(公告)号：US06556134B2

公开(公告)日：2003-04-29

申请号：US09987260

申请日：2001-11-14

申请人： Yoshiharu Nakaji ,  Satoshi Kitazaki ,  Kazuhito Kato ,  Shunsuke Hijikata ,  Akinari Hirao

发明人： Yoshiharu Nakaji ,  Satoshi Kitazaki ,  Kazuhito Kato ,  Shunsuke Hijikata ,  Akinari Hirao

IPC分类号： G09F900

CPC分类号： G09G3/20 ,  B60K35/00 ,  B60K2350/203 ,  G09G5/10 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2360/144

摘要： In display apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a display (2) is disposed on a position of the vehicle placed in a proximity to a dashboard surface of the vehicle and a controller (7), when a state of the vehicle which satisfies a predetermined condition is detected, executes a process to gradually reduce a brightness of an image screen of the display toward a predetermined direction which is more distant from a direction of a line of sight of a vehicular driver when the vehicular driver gazes a vehicular forward direction. In one embodiment, the controller gradually reduces the brightness of the image screen of the display toward the predetermined direction in a linear manner. The predetermined direction is, for example, directed from an upper end of the image screen to a lower end thereof.