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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2001
Yoshiharu Nakaji, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Kitazaki, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhito Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Shunsuke Hijikata, Yokohama, JP;
Akinari Hirao, Yokohama, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In display apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a display ( ) is disposed on a position of the vehicle placed in a proximity to a dashboard surface of the vehicle and a controller ( ), when a state of the vehicle which satisfies a predetermined condition is detected, executes a process to gradually reduce a brightness of an image screen of the display toward a predetermined direction which is more distant from a direction of a line of sight of a vehicular driver when the vehicular driver gazes a vehicular forward direction. In one embodiment, the controller gradually reduces the brightness of the image screen of the display toward the predetermined direction in a linear manner. The predetermined direction is, for example, directed from an upper end of the image screen to a lower end thereof.