Patent ID: 11971545
Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle display device comprising:
an image display unit including a liquid crystal panel that displays an image; and
an optical system that projects image light of the displayed image onto a windshield of a vehicle,
wherein a virtual image of the image is visually recognized by light reflected off the windshield,
an image display surface of the liquid crystal panel includes an effective display region that displays the image, an ineffective display region that does not contribute to the displaying the image, and a peripheral edge region,
when an up-down direction of the image is an up-down direction of the image display surface,
the effective display region is set to a region on a side close to one end corresponding to a lower side direction of the image display surface,
the ineffective display region is set to a region corresponding to an upward direction of the image display surface compared to the effective display region,
the effective display region and the ineffective display region are adjacent to each other in the up-down direction of the image display surface, and
the peripheral edge region surrounds the effective display region and the ineffective display region.