US 11,731,512 B2
Display apparatus for a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle
Jacques Helot, Ingolstadt (DE); Ulrich Mueller, Ingolstadt (DE); Immo Redeker, Ingolstadt (DE); Joris Mertens, Ingolstadt (DE); and Anna Hufnagel, Munich (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 17/51,591
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/056924
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/211039, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 206 656.6 (DE), filed on Apr. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0138902 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G09G 5/38 (2006.01); G09G 5/30 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 35/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G09G 5/30 (2013.01); G09G 5/38 (2013.01); B60K 2370/152 (2019.05); B60K 2370/27 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01); G09G 2380/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display apparatus for a motor vehicle having an interior with a driver's compartment and a dashboard having a trough-shaped recess with at least one side wall in a window root region, the trough-shaped recess being open towards the driver's compartment, and an exterior viewable through at least a windshield, comprising:
a display panel, arranged inside the trough-shaped recess at a predetermined distance from the at least one side wall, whereby at least sections of the at least one side wall of the trough-shaped recess are visible through the display panel, displaying at least one graphical display object, the display panel being divided into predetermined sections, each having a degree of light transmittance, the display panel being unsupported in front and behind so that at least one portion of the interior is visible to a seated occupant through the display panel depending on the degree of light transmittance; and
a control device configured to individually set a respective light transmittance to a predetermined degree for each of the predetermined sections of the display panel.