Patent ID: 7966123

Claim:
A display device for a vehicle comprising: a meter main area including meters and indicators appended to the meters, and having an emphasis display area, the meters and the indicators being arranged while assembled with one another so that basic operation state information of the vehicle is visually displayed by the meters and the indicators, and the emphasis display area being switchable between an emphasized display state based on a predetermined emphasis display color and a non-emphasized display state from which the emphasized display state is released; an auxiliary image display area that has a image displaying color pixel matrix separated and compartmented from the meter main area and color-displays an auxiliary image containing display information other than the basic operation state information; and a display control unit having a display color restriction converting unit for setting as a restriction target monitor area a graphic area which belongs to graphic areas displayed in the pixel matrix of the auxiliary image display area and whose display color is set to a pre-restriction set color of the same type as the emphasized display color when the display state of the emphasis display area is set to the non-emphasized display state, and converting the display color of the restriction target monitor area to a post-restriction set color having a larger color difference from the emphasized display color than the pre-restriction set color in connection with the switching of the emphasis display area at the meter main part side from the non-emphasized display state to the emphasized display state.