US 11,850,941 B2
Display control apparatus, display apparatus, display system, moving body, program, and image generation method
Yuuki Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/428,992
Filed by Yuuki Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/048345
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/188910, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-053391 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0024316 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 37/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 37/02 (2013.01) [B60K 2370/1529 (2019.05); B60K 2370/178 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1868 (2019.05); B60K 2370/193 (2019.05); B60Y 2300/08 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A display control apparatus to display a virtual image in front of a moving body through a transparent member, the display control apparatus comprising:
information acquiring circuitry configured to acquire information about an obstacle around the moving body;
display image generation circuitry configured to generate, based on the information, data of an indicator image which points in a direction of the obstacle in the virtual image and which is moved in the direction of the obstacle to approach the obstacle; and
output circuitry configured to output the virtual image based on the data, wherein
the virtual image includes the indicator image and a display element image corresponding to the moving body, and
the display image generation circuitry generates the data such that (1) an interval between the indicator image and the display element image in the virtual image is varied according to a corresponding distance between the moving body and the obstacle, and (2) the indicator image is rotated according to the direction of the obstacle with respect to the moving body.