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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
May. 07, 2013
Hajime Yamada, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Stuart Yamamoto, La Mirada, CA (US);
Hajime Yamada, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Stuart Yamamoto, La Mirada, CA (US);
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display device generates a combined display that is viewable by the driver of a vehicle. The combined display may be composed of a plurality of displays, wherein one or more overlaying displays appear partially or completely in front of a first display, each overlaying display having an opaque portion that conveys information and a substantially transparent portion through which the first display is viewable. One or more monitors may generate the first display and overlaying displays. A monitor may be divided into multiple screens to generate a plurality of the displays. A screen that generates the first display may be directly viewable by the driver, while the screens the generate the overlaying displays may be outside the driver's line of sight. The display device may include one or more reflecting surfaces and one or more refracting surfaces for directing the overlaying displays into the driver's line of sight.