Patent ID: 8082077

Claim:
A steerable vehicle information display system presenting a driver of a steerable vehicle with an informational image representative of the status of the steerable vehicle, comprising: a status information acquisition unit that acquires status information indicative of the status of each component of the steerable vehicle respectively from each component with a predetermined periodicity; an image-generating unit that generates component images respectively representative of the status of each component of the steerable vehicle based on the status information acquired by the status information acquisition unit and generates the informational image by compositing the generated component images; a dot-matrix type display device for displaying the informational image generated by the image-generating unit; and a storage unit that stores information, which is the status information or intermediate information generated from the status information used to generate the informational images in the image-generating unit, and which is at least the latest information, wherein whenever any part of the status information supposed to be acquired in the status information acquisition unit is not acquired, the image-generating unit generates the informational image using the status information or intermediate information stored in the storage unit and displays it on the display device.