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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Tomotake Wakatsuki, Susono, JP;

Koji Ishii, Susono, JP;

Inventors:

Tomotake Wakatsuki, Susono, JP;

Koji Ishii, Susono, JP;

Assignee:

Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/10 (2006.01); G09G 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/22 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0233 (2013.01); G09G 2320/041 (2013.01); G09G 2320/048 (2013.01); G09G 2340/10 (2013.01); G09G 2360/16 (2013.01); G09G 2380/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display device for a vehicle includes: a self-luminous indicator which has a display screen with a plurality of pixels; a display control unit that displays image information indicating at least a given display pattern on a display screen of the self-luminous indicator; a display time measuring unit that measures a display time of the self-luminous indicator; and a brightness adjusting unit that adjusts the brightness of the display screen on the basis of at least the display time measured by the display time measuring unit in order to suppress non-uniform brightness deterioration of the display screen when the non-uniform brightness deterioration occurs on the display screen. The display control unit displays the image information on the display screen of the self-luminous indicator with the brightness adjusted by the brightness adjusting unit.


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