Display control apparatus

A display control apparatus for controlling a display device mounted in a vehicle, the display device including a screen having a plurality of areas set as display regions, and the display control apparatus controlling the display device so as to assign a content to a corresponding area and to display the content, the display control apparatus comprising:

• a content managing unit managing the content by associating content information as an attribute of the content with a corresponding content;
• an area managing unit managing the area by associating area information as an attribute of the area with a corresponding area;
• and
• a content assignment control unit determining a combination of the content managed by the content managing unit and the area managed by the area managing unit,
• wherein the content assignment control unit executes:
• a content list generating process for generating a content list according to contents managed by the content managing unit;
• an area list generating process for generating an area list as an available combination of the areas managed by the area managing unit;
• a combination list extracting process for extracting a combination of the areas and the contents as a combination list based on the area list and the content list;
• an evaluation reference value calculating process for calculating an evaluation reference value of each combination list based on the content information and the area information;
• and
• a combination determining process for comparing the combination lists to select one of the combination lists based on the evaluation reference value of each combination list, determining a combination of the contents and the areas, and displaying the selected one of the combination lists to a user.