Illumination Control; Adjusting The Minimum Level Of Backlight; Switching Background Textures; Setting Automatic Background Textures - Alpine VPE-S431 Operating Instructions Manual

Illumination Control

Backlighting is provided by a fluorescent light built into the liquid
crystal panel. The illumination control adjusts the brightness of the
backlighting based on the car ambient lighting for easier viewing.
Setting item: DIMMER
Setting content: OFF / ON / AUTO
OFF: Deactivate Auto Dimmer mode to keep the
background illumination of the monitor bright.
ON: Keep the background illumination of the monitor dark.
AUTO: Adjust the brightness of the background illumination
of the monitor automatically to the brightness of the
car interior.
However, when set to AUTO with the monitor closed,
the button lighting will become active when the
headlights are turned on. (This is not functional if the
illumination lead of the unit is not connected).

Adjusting the Minimum Level of Backlight

You can adjust the brightness of the backlight (LOW). This function
could be used, for instance, to change the screen brightness while
travelling at night.
Setting item: DIMMER LOW LEVEL
Setting content: -15 to +15
You can adjust the level between MIN (-15) and MAX (+15).
When it reaches the minimum or maximum point, the display
shows "MIN" or "MAX" respectively.

Switching Background Textures

You have a choice of 5 different background textures preset at the
factory.
Setting item: BACKGROUND
Setting content: MODE1 to 5
• When you select a source other than the built-in disc on this unit,
and the built-in disc is selected on the rear monitor connected to
the unit, background textures cannot be displayed on the unit.
• When an error message is displayed (ERROR, HI-TEMP, etc.),
background textures selected by this setting cannot be displayed on
the unit.

Setting Automatic Background Textures

Turn on the Automatic Background Texture Scroll to automatically
change background texture. The background texture will change each
time the ignition key is turned off and turned back on again (5
textures).
Setting item: AUTO BACKGROUND
Setting content: OFF / ON
ON: Turn on the Auto Background Texture Scroll mode.
The background textures will scroll when the ignition key
is turned off once and turned back on again as follows:
MODE1 → MODE2 → MODE3 → MODE4 →
MODE5 → MODE1
OFF: Turn off the Auto Background Texture Scroll mode.

Setting the Font Type

You can choose a character (text and tag information, etc.) font type
for the main display.
Setting item: FONT TYPE
Setting content: FONT 1 / FONT 2
FONT1:Selects bold characters.
FONT2:Selects round characters.

Switching the Font Back Display Colour

You can choose from 5 different display colours for the font back
(source title, shortcut display, etc.).
Setting item: FONT COLOR
Setting contents: MODE 1 to MODE 5

Turning the Touch Panel Vibration ON or OFF

You can turn the touch panel's vibration ON or OFF during operation.
Setting item: TOUCH PANEL
Setting content: NORMAL / FORCE
NORMAL: Turns off vibration during operation.
FORCE: Turns on vibration during operation.

Adjusting the Touch Panel

Adjustment becomes necessary when the display position on the LCD
and the touch position on the touch panel do not match.
Setting item: SCREEN ALIGNMENT
Setting content: / RESET
1 Touch [ ] of SCREEN ALIGNMENT.
The adjustment screen appears.
2 Accurately touch the
corner of the screen.
The screen changes to the adjustment screen.
3 Accurately touch the
right corner of the screen.
This completes adjustment, and returns to the DISPLAY
setup mode screen.
• If you have touched a location other than the
[RESET] to restore the adjustment screen to the initial setting.
• If you touch [RETURN] on the adjustment screen, no adjustment is
done and the DISPLAY setup screen is restored.
mark provided in the lower left
mark provided in the upper
mark, touch
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