Patent ID: 8482683
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle inside mirror device for displaying an image, the vehicle inside mirror device comprising: a housing mounted in a passenger compartment of a vehicle; a prismatic glass provided on a front side of the housing and having a transparent transflective layer formed on a rear surface thereof; a liquid crystal display (LCD) module provided at the rear surface of the prismatic glass covering a portion of the rear surface of the prismatic glass; a black film provided at the rear surface of the prismatic glass and having an opening formed therein corresponding to the portion of the rear surface covered by the LCD module, the black film covering all of the rear surface not covered by the LCD module; and a control circuit unit installed at a rear side of the LCD module with the control circuit unit including a regulator electrically connected to a power source, an A/D convertor electrically connected to an illumination sensor and a camera, a microcontroller unit electrically connected to the A/D convertor, a backlight unit connected to the regulator and the microcontroller unit and generating backlight, an EEPROM (electrically erasable and programmable read only memory) electrically connected to the microcontroller unit, an interface connected to the EEPROM, and a LCD driver electrically connected to the interface and having an output terminal connected to the LCD module.