# US 2018/0322787 A1 · Display control apparatus and vehicle control apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0322787 A1 - Document ID: US20180322787A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/768,223 - Filed: 2016-10-14 - Published: 2018-11-08 - Earliest claimed: 2015-10-16 - Assignees: Denso Corporation - Applicants: Denso Corporation - Inventors: Takahiro SHIMIZU - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180322787A1 ## CPC - G08G 1/167: {Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection} - G08G 1/165: {for passive traffic, e.g. including static obstacles, trees} - G08G 1/166: {for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes} - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) ## Abstract A display control apparatus is installed in an own vehicle to display an image on a display device viewed by a passenger of the own vehicle. The display control apparatus includes a boundary acquisition section that acquires positions of boundary portions defining both width-wise ends of a traveling lane in which the own vehicle travels, and an object acquisition section that acquires a position of an object around the traveling lane. The apparatus generates a position image, which is an image representing the positions of the boundary portions and the position of the object, and displays the position image on the display device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display control apparatus that is installed in an own vehicle to display an image on a display device viewed by a passenger of the own vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a boundary acquisition section that acquires positions of boundary portions defining both width-wise ends of a traveling lane in which the own vehicle travels; an object acquisition section that acquires a position of an object around the traveling lane; and a generation control section that generates a position image, which is an image representing the positions of the boundary portions and the position of the object and displays the position image on the display device, wherein during offset control under which a lateral position of the own vehicle is moved to a side distant from the object, the generation control unit displays an offset icon indicating that the offset control is being performed. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generation control section includes an image indicating whether the positions of the boundary portions have been acquired, as the position image. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the boundary acquisition section acquires the positions of the boundary portions on right and left sides of the traveling lane, and the generation control section includes, as the position image, an image indicating whether the respective positions of the boundary portion on the right side of the traveling lane and the boundary portion on the left side of the traveling lane have been acquired. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a movement recognition section that recognizes a movement direction of the object, wherein the generation control section includes an image representing the movement direction of the object, as the position image. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an object type recognition section that recognizes a type of the object, wherein the generation control section uses an image representing the type of the object to indicate the position of the object. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The display control apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a relative speed recognition section that recognizes a relative speed between the own vehicle and the object, wherein the object type recognition section recognizes whether the object is a vehicle, and when the object is a vehicle, recognizes whether the recognized vehicle is a parallel vehicle traveling in the same direction as that of the own vehicle or a non-parallel vehicle traveling in a direction different from that of the own vehicle based on the relative speeds, and the generation control section generates an image representing a parallel vehicle when the recognized vehicle is a parallel vehicle, or generates an image representing a non-parallel vehicle different from the image representing a parallel vehicle when the recognized vehicle is a non-parallel vehicle, and the position image includes the image representing a parallel vehicle or a non-parallel vehicle. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The display control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the object type recognition section recognizes whether the object is a person, and when the object is recognized as a person, the generation control section generates an image representing a pedestrian, and the position image includes the image representing the pedestrian. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generation control section generates the position image by combining an object icon representing the object as a picture and a boundary icon representing the boundary portion as a picture. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generation control section changes a distance between the image representing the object and the image representing the boundary portion to be longer in the position image as a distance between the acquired position of the object and the acquired position of the boundary portion is longer. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the boundary acquisition section acquires a recognition result of a suitability boundary indicating the boundary between an unsuitable section, which is a section unsuitable for traveling of the own vehicle, and the traveling lane, as the boundary portion. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generation control section generates an image representing numerically the distance between the object and the boundary portion, and the position image includes the image representing numerically the distance. ### Claim 12 A vehicle control apparatus that is installed in an own vehicle to control the own vehicle, comprising: a boundary acquisition section that acquires positions of boundary portions defining both width-wise ends of a traveling lane in which the own vehicle travels; an object acquisition section that acquires a position of an object around the traveling lane; a deviation prediction section that predicts deviation of the own vehicle from the traveling lane based on a traveling state of the own vehicle traveling in the traveling lane defined by the boundary portions acquired by the boundary acquisition section; a deviation suppression section that, when the deviation prediction section predicts the deviation of the own vehicle from the traveling lane and the object exists on or outside the boundary portion on a side on which the own vehicle will deviate from the traveling lane, commands a traveling control apparatus to suppress the deviation of the own vehicle from the traveling lane such that a maximum movement position, which the own vehicle reaches when moving to a deviation side, is on a more inward side of the traveling lane than that on the occasion when there exists no object on or outside the boundary portion on the side on which the own vehicle will deviate from the traveling lane; and a generation control section that generates a position image, which is an image representing the positions of the boundary portions and the position of the object, and displays the position image on a display device.