Patent ID: 8138990

Claim:
A display apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: an unreal image display device configured to output a light that displays an image, and cause a windshield or a combiner to reflect the light, enabling a driver to see the image as an unreal image in front of the vehicle; a distance acquisition device configured to acquire a first distance from the vehicle to a predetermined target spot; a display position designation section configured to enable the image to appear as an unreal image at an on-road position, which is a position on a road, in a view of the driver, the on-road position being at a second distance from the target spot by designating a display position of the image in the unreal image display device based on the first distance from the vehicle to the predetermined target spot and the second distance from the target spot to the on-road position; and an image selection section configured to select, based on an instruction of the driver, one of (i) a first image, which indicates the second distance, and (ii) a second image, which indicates the second distance and is gradated compared with the first image, as the image displayed in the unreal image display device at the display position designated by the display position designation section, wherein the second distance includes at least three distances of (1×d), (2×d), and (3×d) from the target spot, wherein d is a distance interval, the display position designation section being further configured to designate at least three display positions of the image in the unreal image display device, the display positions corresponding to the at least three distances from the target spot, respectively, the image selection section being further configured to select, as the image by the unreal image display device, one of (i) the first image that indicates each of the at least three distances and (ii) the second image, which is gradated compared with the first image, as the image displayed in the unreal image display device at each of the at least three display positions designated by the display position designation section.