US 7,573,377 B2
Moving display apparatus for a vehicle
Hideaki Kageyama, Shizuoka (Japan); Yoshiyuki Furuya, Shizuoka (Japan); and Masahiko Mio, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 08, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/517,372.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-333736 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0115107 A1, May 24, 2007
Int. Cl. G09F 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 340—461  [340/438; 340/459; 340/462] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
a display device for displaying first vehicle data and second vehicle data;
a display controller for controlling the display of the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data;
a separator surrounding the first vehicle data;
a movement controller for moving the separator;
a judging device for judging whether the vehicle is moving or not moving;
wherein when the judging device judges that the vehicle is not moving, the movement controller moves the separator at a first speed to a side of the display device, and the display controller displays the first data at a first image quality; and
wherein when the judging device judges that the vehicle is moving, the movement controller moves the separator at a second higher speed to a side of the display device, and the display controller displays the first data at a second image quality lower than the first image quality.