US 11,932,108 B2
Display device and vehicle including the display device
Jacques Helot, Ingolstadt (DE); Ulrich Mueller, Ingolstadt (DE); Immo Redeker, Ingolstadt (DE); Joris Mertens, Ingolstadt (DE); Michael Herter, Eichstaett (DE); and André Georgi, Eching (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 17/295,322
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/082420
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/126328, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18213791 (EP), filed on Dec. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0016978 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 35/00 (2006.01); G07C 1/30 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 35/00 (2013.01) [G07C 1/30 (2013.01); B60K 2370/1523 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1526 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1868 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05); B60K 2370/785 (2019.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a display panel with a first panel side and a second panel side, the display panel including:
a first layer on the first panel side, the first layer including a pixel matrix, wherein in a respective non-actuated state each pixel element of the pixel matrix is transparent,
a second layer on the second panel side, the second layer including a plurality of primary subareas having an adjustable degree of light transmission, and the plurality of primary subareas are separated by a primary space between each primary subarea of the plurality of primary subareas,
a third layer configured to attenuate light in the primary space and including:
a webbed structure, or
a plurality of secondary subareas having an adjustable degree of light transmission, and
control circuitry configured to:
actuate a pixel element of the pixel matrix for displaying a graphic display object having a predefined display alignment,
estimate a physical environment condition based on a signal from an electronic control unit, based on the estimated physical environment condition,
enable the displaying of the graphic display object according to the predefined display alignment in one of a first orientation and a second orientation,
wherein in the first orientation the graphic display object is perceivable on the first panel side in the predefined display alignment and in the second orientation the graphic display object is perceivable on the second panel side in the predefined display alignment, and
adjust a respective light transmission to a predetermined individual degree for each of a plurality of predetermined primary subareas among the plurality of primary subareas, independent of each of a plurality of respective remaining primary subareas, according to at least one of the estimated physical environment condition or whether the graphic display object is to be displayed in the first orientation or the second orientation.