US 12,190,849 B2
Display control apparatus, display control method, and program for displaying an image overlaying a target image in a safe area of a display
Toru Ogiso, Tokyo (JP); Masato Mitsutake, Tokyo (JP); Sachiyo Aoki, Tokyo (JP); and Michiko Matsumura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/627,135
Filed by SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 21, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/028299
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/020239, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-142374 (JP), filed on Aug. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0254321 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. G09G 5/14 (2006.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.01); A63F 13/53 (2014.01); G09G 5/377 (2006.01); G09G 5/395 (2006.01); G09G 5/397 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 5/14 (2013.01) [G09G 5/377 (2013.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.09); A63F 13/53 (2014.09); G09G 5/395 (2013.01); G09G 5/397 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0261 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0464 (2013.01); G09G 2340/125 (2013.01); G09G 2360/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A display control apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to:
acquire a first image in a first frame buffer drawn by an application program and a second image in a second frame buffer drawn by the application program;
specify, for a display, a first setting of a first safe area for the first image based on a first setting instruction from the application program and a second setting of a second safe area for the second image based on a second setting instruction from the application program, the second setting being different from the first setting, wherein the first safe area is offset with respect to a center of the display;
acquire, from the application program, an autoscaling setting for the first image that indicates whether or not an autoscaling process is to be applied to the first image based on a size of the first safe area;
generate a display target image including superimposing the first image sized based on the first setting and the second image sized based on the second setting, wherein the first image having no autoscaling process is displayed in a placement region having a position and a size in the display target image and the first image having the autoscaling process and a non-content display region are displayed in the placement region having the position and the size in the display target image; and
output the display target image to the display.