Patent ID: 6639569
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: B60K,G02B,G09G

Abstract:
An integrated heads-up display (HUD) and cluster projection panel assembly for a motor vehicle, the assembly comprising:a housing; a common display unit contained within the housing, the display unit having first and second pixel arrays which are joined together side-by-side and turn on and off for forming different first and second image light beams in response to receiving light, the first and second image light beams being different from one another with the first image light beam forming HUD information and the second image light beam forming cluster projection panel information in which the cluster projection panel information is different than the HUD information; a HUD unit and a cluster projection panel contained within the housing, the HUD unit and the cluster projection panel sharing the display unit; the HUD unit having a first converter for transmitting light to the first pixel array of the display unit, the HUD unit further having a first projection optic for projecting the first image light beam from the first pixel array of the display unit onto a windscreen of the motor vehicle in order to project the HUD information onto the windscreen; and the cluster projection panel having a second converter for transmitting light to the second pixel array of the display unit, the cluster projection panel unit further having a second projection optic for projecting the second image light beam from the second pixel array of the display unit onto a cluster projection screen of the motor vehicle in order to project the cluster projection panel information onto the cluster projection screen.