Operating The Picture Adjustment; Adjusting The Dimmer - Pioneer AVIC-N3 Operation Manual

Operating the Picture Adjust-
ment
• For safety reasons, visual images cannot
be viewed while your vehicle is in motion.
To view visual images, you must stop in a
safe place and put on the parking brake
before setting your route (see page 13
Interlock for details).
1
Press the WIDE/PIC ADJ button and hold
to display PICTURE ADJUSTMENT.
BRIGHTNESS — Adjust the black intensity
CONTRAST — Adjust the contrast
COLOR — Adjust the color saturation
HUE — Adjust the tone of color (red is
emphasized or green is emphasized)
DIMMER — Adjust the brightness of display
BACK-CAMERA — Switch to the picture
adjustment display for the rear view camera
❒ Touching "SOURCE" (or "NAVI") while
adjusting the rear view camera image
returns you to the previous screen. (Except
when the vehicle's shift lever is in reverse
[R].)
❒ The adjustments of BRIGHTNESS and
CONTRAST are stored separately for
light ambient (daytime) and dark ambient
(nighttime). A sun
played to the left of BRIGHTNESS and
CONTRAST, respectively, as the ambient
light sensor determines brightness or
darkness.
❒ You cannot adjust COLOR and HUE for
the source without a video and navigation
map display.
❒ You can adjust the picture adjustment for
the rear view camera only when CAMERA
in SETUP menu is turned on.
➲ Setting for rear view camera ➞ Operation
Manual
or moon is dis-
❒ The picture adjustment may not be able to
be used with some rear view cameras.
❒ The same setting is selected for the normal
background picture and the navigation
map display.
❒ Because of the LCD screen characteris-
tics, you may not be able to adjust the
screen at low temperatures.
2
Touch "+" or "–" to adjust the selected
item.
Each time you touch "+" or "–" increases or
decreases the level of selected item. +24 to –
24 is displayed as the level is increased or
decreased.
3
Touch "ESC" to return to the previous
screen.

Adjusting the dimmer

The adjustment of DIMMER is stored separately
for each ambient light; daytime, evening and
nighttime. The brightness of the LCD screen
adjusts automatically to the optimum level in
accordance with the ambient light based on the
set values.
1
Press WIDE/PIC ADJ button and hold to
display PICTURE ADJUSTMENT.
❒ The ambient light level icon used as the
standard for adjusting DIMMER appears
above the level bar.
❒ The icons indicating the current ambient
brightness used for adjusting
BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST may
differ from DIMMER slightly.
• Yellow sun — bright ambient light (day-
time)
• Red sun — intermediate brightness
(evening)
• Blue moon — dark ambient light (night-
time)
2
Touch  or  to adjust the brightness.
The level indicates the brightness of the
screen being adjusted. The further the level
indicator moves to the right, the brighter the
screen.
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