US 10,650,562 B2Granted

Display control device

AssigneeDENSO TEN Limited

InventorsTakashi Eguchi, Hirokazu Ichihara, Daitaro Yamasaki

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Abstract

A display control device that displays an image includes an acquirer, a drawer, and an image combiner. The acquirer acquires layer information which defines (i) individual layers corresponding to display regions of a plurality of display devices and (ii) a common layer including the display regions of the plurality of display devices, as layers of images each constituted by a plurality of layers. The drawer draws first combination images to be displayed so as to move among the plurality of display devices in the common layer, and draws second combination images to be independently displayed by the display devices in the individual layers, based on the layer information acquired by the acquirer. The image combiner combines the first combination images drawn in the common layer by the drawer with the second combination images of the corresponding individual layers. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce a processing load when image display is linked between a plurality of displays.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A display control device that displays an image, the display control device comprising:

a controller including a processor and a memory, the controller being configured to:
acquire layer information that defines (i) an individual layer having a display region corresponding to a display device of each of a plurality of display devices, and (ii) a common layer including a plurality of display regions corresponding to all of the plurality of display devices, as layers of images each constituted by a plurality of layers;
generate first combination images to be displayed so as to move among the plurality of display devices in the common layer, and generate second combination images to be independently displayed by each of the plurality of display devices in the individual layers, based on the acquired layer information;
when one of the first combination images moves from a first display device to a second display device of the plurality of display devices, set display timings of the plurality of display devices by determining a movement speed of the one of the first combination images between the first and second display devices based on a distance between the first display device and the second display device, which is included in the acquired layer information;
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combine the first combination images generated in the common layer with the second combination images generated in the corresponding individual layers.

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A display control method of displaying images, the display control method comprising steps of:

(a) acquiring, by a controller including a processor and a memory, layer information that defines (i) an individual layer having a display region corresponding to a display device of each of a plurality of display devices, and (ii) a common layer including a plurality of display regions corresponding to all of the plurality of display devices, as layers of images each constituted by a plurality of layers;
(b) generating, by the controller, first combination images to be displayed so as to move among the plurality of display devices in the common layer, and generating, by the controller, second combination images to be independently displayed by each of the display devices in the individual layers, based on the acquired layer information in the step (a);
(c) when one of the first combination images moves from a first display device to a second display device of the plurality of display devices, setting, by the controller, display timings of the plurality of display devices by determining a movement speed of the one of the first combination images between the first and second display devices based on a distance between the first display device and the second display device, which is included in the acquired layer information;
and
(d) combining, by the controller, the first combination images generated in the common layer in the step (b) with the second combination images generated in the corresponding individual layers.

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A display control system that displays images, the display control system comprising:

a display control device including a controller having a processor and a memory, the controller being configured to:
acquire layer information that defines (i) an individual layer having a display region corresponding to a display device of each of a plurality of display devices, and (ii) a common layer including a plurality of display regions corresponding to all of the plurality of display devices, as layers of images each constituted by a plurality of layers,
generate first combination images to be displayed so as to move among the plurality of display devices in the common layer, and generate second combination images to be independently displayed by each of the plurality of display devices in the individual layers, based on the acquired layer information,
when one of the first combination images moves from a first display device to a second display device of the plurality of display devices, set display timings of the plurality of display devices by determining a movement speed of the one of the first combination images between the first and second display devices based on a distance between the first display device and the second display device, which is included in the acquired layer information, and
combine the first combination images generated in the common layer with the second combination images generated in the corresponding individual layers;
and
a display device that displays an image output from the display control device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.