Control apparatus for displaying vehicle information synthesized with external information

A display control apparatus for a vehicle, the display control apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory memory having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to perform:
• inputting an external image from an external information terminal;
• determining whether the external image is displayable on a display device;
• and
• when the external image is determined to be displayable on the display device, (i) searching for a non-important section within the external image, (ii) setting a displayable area for displaying obtained vehicle information in the searched non-important section, (iii) image-synthesizing the vehicle information on the displayable area, (iv) adjusting a display size of the vehicle information corresponding to a size of the displayable area, and (v) displaying the synthesized image on the display device,
• wherein the searching for the non-important section includes (i) determining, for each pixel of the external image, a change in color data over a plurality of frames of the external image and (ii) obtaining, as the non-important section, an area of the external image including pixels having the change in the color data less than a predetermined threshold.

A display control apparatus for a vehicle, the display control apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory memory having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to perform:
• inputting an external image from an external information terminal;
• determining whether the external image is displayable on a display device;
• when the external image is determined to be displayable on the display device, (i) searching for a non-important section within the external image, (ii) setting a displayable area for displaying obtained vehicle information in the searched non-important section, (iii) image-synthesizing the vehicle information on the displayable area, and (iv) displaying the synthesized image on the display device;
• and
• when the external image is determined to be displayable on the display device and the external image is a navigation screen, determining and displaying a self-position of the vehicle,
• wherein the searching for the non-important section includes (i) determining, for each pixel of the external image, a change in color data over a plurality of frames of the external image and (ii) obtaining, as the non-important section, an area of the external image including pixels having the change in the color data less than a predetermined threshold.