Display apparatus installed in elevator, and image processing method

An image processing method for processing an image on a display apparatus configured to be installed in an elevator and including a monitor unit and an image processor, the image processing method including:

• an image display step of displaying, on the monitor unit, a virtual object for giving an effect of providing a sense of boundary between inside and outside of the elevator to an occupant in the elevator to be distinguished from at least one of an external image obtained by photographing an external panoramic view of the elevator and a virtual graphic screen related to the external panoramic view, wherein the external panoramic view changes according to movement of the elevator while the displayed external panoramic view is reproduced on the monitor unit, and the displayed virtual object moves from one point to another point in the changing external panoramic view,
• wherein the monitor unit includes:
• a ceiling monitor extending to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a ceiling part of the elevator;
• and
• a sidewall monitor extending parallel to a sidewall part of the elevator and extending to be inclined with respect to the ceiling monitor, and wherein, in the image display step, the virtual object is displayed on the monitor unit so as to move in a direction different from a movement direction of the elevator and at a speed different from a movement speed of the elevator, and the displayed virtual object moves from the ceiling monitor to the sidewall monitor, wherein the image processor frames out the virtual object from the ceiling monitor through a lower edge of the ceiling monitor as the virtual object displayed on the ceiling monitor moves downward, and frames in a portion of the virtual object framed out of the celling monitor into the sidewall monitor through an upper edge of the sidewall monitor.

A display apparatus configured to be installed on an inner wall of a building equipped with an elevator, the display apparatus comprising:

• a monitor unit for displaying an output image;
• and
• an image processor configured to display, on the monitor unit, at least one of an external image obtained by photographing an external panoramic view of the building and a virtual graphic screen related to the external panoramic view, wherein the monitor unit includes:
• a ceiling monitor extending to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a ceiling wall of the building;
• and
• a sidewall monitor extending parallel to a sidewall part of the elevator and extending to be inclined with respect to the ceiling monitor, wherein the image processor displays, on the monitor unit, a virtual object for giving an effect of providing a sense of boundary between inside and outside of the building to an occupant staying in the building to be distinguished from the external panoramic view corresponding to at least one of the external image and the virtual graphic screen, wherein the external panoramic view changing according to movement of the elevator while the displayed external panoramic view is reproduced on the monitor unit, and moves and displays the virtual object from one point to another point in the changing external panoramic view, and wherein the virtual object is displayed on the monitor unit so as to move in a direction different from a movement direction of the elevator and at a speed different from a movement speed of the elevator, and the displayed virtual object moves from the ceiling monitor to the sidewall monitor, wherein the external image includes a first external image and a second external image, wherein a photographing unit includes a first photographing device for acquiring the first external image by photographing a lateral external panoramic view of the elevator and a second photographing device for acquiring the second external image by photographing an upper external panoramic view of the elevator, and wherein the image processor displays the first external image and the virtual object on the sidewall monitor and displays the second external image and the virtual object on the ceiling monitor.