Patent ID: 8192028

Claim:
A projector of an information display system in vehicles for projecting images comprising information for passengers or crew members onto a projection area, wherein the projection area is arranged in the vehicle; wherein the projector comprises: a projection lens that images the image contents onto the projection area, a first LED array comprising a plurality of LEDs that can be switched on and off independently of each other for acting as a light source and as a projection device for generating the images; a separation box arranged between the first LED array and the projection lens, said separation box comprising a plurality of chambers; and a passepartout with a plurality of openings whose number corresponds to the number of the LEDs and the number of the chambers of the separation box for improving design and contrast of the projected image, said passepartout arranged downstream of the separation box, wherein for generating composite variable image contents, each of the plurality of the LEDs can be individually controlled; wherein each of the chambers of the separation box is associated with a respective LED such that a chamber associated with a switched-on LED is imaged on the projection area by the projection lens as a part of the compound image determined by the switched-on LED; and wherein the form of the chambers influences the appearance of the image reproducing the information.