DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: OISHI MASAHITO, UCHIKOSHI TADAHIRO, IKEDA HIROSHI, ANDO HIROSHI, TSUBATA SHINTARO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 28.06.2022
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SEALS; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

To provide a display control apparatus which, even when a visual line cannot be detected, displays information necessary for safety drive on a display device that tends to attract a visual line.SOLUTION: A display control apparatus according to the present invention has a first selection unit for, when a visual line information indicating a direction in which a visual line of a crew of a vehicle is directed is output, selecting a display device located in a direction of the visual line among a plurality of display devices indicating information provided for the crew of the vehicle as the display device for displaying the information, and a second selection unit for, when the visual line information is not output, selecting a display device to which the visual line of the crew is more probably directed as compared with other display devices of the plurality of display devices as the display device for displaying the information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】視線を検出できない場合でも視線が向き得る表示装置に安全な運転に必要な情報を表示させる表示制御装置を提供する。【解決手段】表示制御装置は、車両の乗員の視線が向かう方向を示す視線情報が出力されている場合、前記車両の乗員に提供される情報を表示する複数の表示装置の内、前記視線が向かう方向に存在する表示装置を、前記情報を表示させる表示装置として選択する第１選択部と、前記視線情報が出力されていない場合、複数の前記表示装置の内、前記乗員の視線が向かう蓋然性が他の表示装置よりも高い表示装置を、前記情報を表示させる表示装置として選択する第２選択部と、を備える。【選択図】図１