Display control apparatus, display control method, and program for displaying an image overlaying a target image in a safe area of a display

A display control method comprising:

• acquiring a first image that is in a first frame buffer drawn by an application program and a second image in a second frame buffer drawn by the application program;
• specifying, 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;
• acquiring, 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;
• generating a display target image by superimposing the first image sized according to the first setting and the second image sized according to 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;
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• outputting the display target image to the display.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program executable by a computer, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to perform a method comprising:

• acquiring a first image that is in a first frame buffer drawn by an application program and a second image in a second frame buffer drawn by the application program;
• acquiring, 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;
• specifying, 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 and the second safe area are spaced apart on the display;
• generating a display target image by 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;
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• outputting the display target image to the display.