Display device for a vehicle for displaying information relating to the operation of the vehicle and method for displaying this information

US8674820B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Robert Hofmann · Berlin, DE
• Gustav Hofmann · Braunschweig, DE
• Sun Kyoung Han · Berlin, DE
• Mathias Kuhn · Eckental, DE
• Marc Amann · Berlin, DE
• Rainer Dehmann · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 17, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K2360/27
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A display device for a vehicle for the display of information relating to the operation of the vehicle includes a display, at least one round instrument which is readable to a viewer in the area of the display, and a control device which controls the reading on the display and of the round instrument. The display device can be controlled by the control device such that the display device has a first display mode in which the at least one round instrument is displayed to the viewer and the display has a display area within the round instrument and a display area outside the round instrument, and the display device has a second display mode in which the at least one round instrument is not displayed to the viewer, the information which can be displayed by the round instrument is represented by a digital reading of the display, and the information displayed by the display in the first display mode within the round instrument is displayed in another display area of the display.