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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni, Orbassano, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
The display device has a pair of liquid crystal, colour display units fitted to the dashboard of the vehicle to display information; a memory; a “track-ball” data selection unit adjacent to the gear lever; and a processing unit cooperating with the memory and the data selection unit, and controlling the display units. In particular, by means of the “track-ball” data selection unit, the driver of the vehicle may change and freely adapt to his own requirements information display parameters such as type, size, colour and style of representation, by selecting from a number of items in a menu shown on the display units and memorized in the memory.