Patent ID: 8886396

Claim:
A meter display device for a vehicle, the meter display device comprising: a display portion including a display region which includes a plurality of display areas, the plurality of display areas extending elongatedly in a left-right direction, which is a horizontal dimension of the meter display device from a perspective of a driver of the vehicle, the plurality of display areas being provided in proximity in a line arrangement in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the left-right direction, the orthogonal direction being a direction along a flat surface of the display portion; and a display control portion switching each of the display areas between a display-operated state and a non-display operated state and increasing a number of the display areas in the display-operated state from one end in the orthogonal direction toward another end in the orthogonal direction according to a predetermined state change of the vehicle, wherein the display control portion displays a current state of the state change of the vehicle by a selected one of (i) means of a number of the display areas that are in the display-operated state and (ii) means of a number of the display areas that are in the non-display operated state.