Patent ID: 8674820
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
1. A display device for a vehicle for displaying information relating to operation of the vehicle, comprising: a display; at least one round instrument displayable to a viewer (a) in a vicinity of the display or (b) on the display; and a control device adapted to control representation on the display and the round instrument; wherein the control device is adapted to actuate the display device to have: (a) a first display mode in which the at least one round instrument is displayed to the viewer, and the display has a display area inside the round instrument and a display area outside the round instrument; and (b) a second display mode in which the at least one round instrument is not displayed to the viewer, information displayable by the round instrument is represented by a digital representation on the display, and information displayed inside the round instrument of the display in the first display mode is displayed in a different display area of the display in the second display mode that is different from the display area inside the round instrument in the first display mode; wherein the display device is actuatable with the control device such that, when there is a change in what is displayed, an image parameter changes, the image parameter being calculated as follows: where n represents a natural number between 0 and m, Pn represents a value of the image parameter of the displayed information in an intermediate stage, in which P 0 represents a value of the image parameter of the displayed information in an initial state when n is 0, P m represents a constant and F represents a transformation parameter.