Patent ID: 7880636

Claim:
An information display unit for an aircraft for displaying information, the information display unit comprising: a housing a light source including a light-emitting diode and the light source is located within the housing; an at least partially light-transparent projector installed behind a ceiling element or integrated into an interior furnishing of an aircraft cabin so that the projector is invisible to a passenger; the light source being positioned behind the projector within the housing and at least partially shining through the projector; and a projection surface formed as a part of the ceiling element of a storage compartment of the aircraft cabin, the projection surface having a projection side and a side opposite to the projection side, a light transmitted through the projector being projectable onto the projection side of the projection surface, the projection surface further being at least partially light-transparent so that the light projected from the projector is visible to the passenger at the side opposite to the projection side of the projection surface.