US 12,464,082 B2
Display control apparatus
Yoshimasa Okabe, Kanagawa (JP); and Masayoshi Michiguchi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,165.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-072548 (JP), filed on Apr. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0344955 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 5/272 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 5/2628 (2013.01) [H04N 5/272 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display control apparatus, comprising:
a processor that is mounted in a vehicle and receives a captured image obtained by capturing a periphery of the vehicle, wherein
the processor generates, based on the captured image having been received, a vehicle periphery image indicating the periphery of the vehicle viewed from a first virtual visual point,
the processor outputs, based on three-dimensional data indicating a subject, a subject image indicating the subject viewed from a second virtual visual point different from the first virtual visual point, the subject monitoring the periphery of the vehicle and being one of an occupant of the vehicle, the vehicle, or both the vehicle and the occupant,
the processor generates a display image by superimposing the subject image on the vehicle periphery image,
an azimuth of a first line of sight is substantially identical to an azimuth of a second line of sight, the azimuth of the first line of sight being an azimuth in which the periphery of the vehicle is viewed from the first virtual visual point, the azimuth of the second line of sight being an azimuth in which the subject is viewed from the second virtual visual point,
the processor moves at least one of the first virtual visual point or the second virtual visual point,
the processor simultaneously changes both the azimuth of the first line of sight and the azimuth of the second line of sight in synchronization with movement of the at least one of the first virtual visual point or the second virtual visual point, and
the processor simultaneously changes both the azimuth of the first line of sight and the azimuth of the second line of sight such that the azimuth of the first line of sight becomes identical to the azimuth of the second line of sight.