Control apparatus for displaying vehicle information synthesized with external information

摘要

The main object of the present invention is to enable image synthesis without obscuring important displays and information. This vehicle display control apparatus includes a display control unit (4) that can display vehicle information obtained from a vehicle information input unit (3) on a display device (1). The display control unit (4) includes an image-processing unit (7) that can image-synthesize the vehicle information from the vehicle information input unit (3) on an external image from an external information terminal (2) and displays the image-synthesized image on the display device (1). Further, this image-processing unit (7) comprises: a displayable area-setting unit (11) that searches for a non-important section within the external image and sets the section as a displayable area (A); and an image-synthesizing unit (12) that image-synthesizes the vehicle information on the displayable area (A).

主权项

1. A display control apparatus for a vehicle, the vehicle control apparatus comprising:
a processor; and a non-transitory memory having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to perform:
inputting an external image from an external information terminal;determining whether the external image is displayable on a display device; andwhen the external image is determined to be displayable on the display device, (i) searching for a non-important section within the external image, (ii) setting a displayable area for displaying obtained vehicle information in the searched non-important section, (iii) image-synthesizing the vehicle information on the displayable area, and (iv) displaying the synthesized image on the display device, wherein the searching for the non-important section includes (i) determining, for each pixel of the external image, a change in color data over a plurality of frames of the external image and (ii) obtaining, as the non-important section, an area of the external image including pixels having the change in the color data less than a predetermined threshold.