Display control apparatus, meter system, and display control method
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsYasuaki Takimoto, Masami Aikawa, Takehisa Mizuguchi, Yoshihiko Mori, Takeshi Mitsui, Masakazu Okuda, Mitsuru Sakai, Masahiro Kosakada, Satoshi Okamoto
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Abstract
There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.
Claims7
A display control apparatus that controls display of a display having a configurable image display screen disposed on a back of a meter, the meter having a mechanically driven pointer representing a value to be displayed, the display control apparatus comprising:
- a renderer to render a graphics indicator indicating an indication value of the meter provided in synchronization with the pointer so as to enhance the display of the value represented by the pointer, the graphics indicator being displayed on the display screen of the display;
- a switching determiner to determine vehicle status based on an output from a sensor to determine a rendering mode of the display screen,
- a display time estimator to estimate a display time at which the graphics indicator is displayed;
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- a hand position estimator to estimate a position of the pointer for the display time estimated by the display time estimator, wherein
- the renderer changes a display mode of the graphics indicator displayed on the display screen, according to the rendering mode determined by the switching determiner, and renders the graphics indicator to indicate the indication value in synchronization with the position of the pointer estimated by the hand position estimator to thereby enhance the display of the value represented by the pointer.
A meter system comprising:
- a meter having a mechanically driven pointer representing a value to be displayed:
- a hand drive controller to drive the meter;
- a display having a configurable image display screen disposed on a back of the meter;
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- a display control apparatus to control the display screen of the display, wherein
- the display control apparatus includes:
- a renderer to render a graphics indicator indicating an indication value of the meter provided in synchronization with the pointer so as to enhance the display of the value represented by the pointer, the graphics indicator being displayed on the display screen of the display;
- and
- a switching determiner to determine vehicle status based on an output from a sensor to determine a rendering mode of the display screen,
- a display time estimator to estimate a display time at which the graphics indicator is displayed;
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- a hand position estimator to estimate a position of the pointer for the display time estimated by the display time estimator, wherein
- the renderer changes a display mode of the graphics indicator displayed on the display screen, according to the rendering mode determined by the switching determiner, and renders the graphics indicator to indicate the indication value in synchronization with the position of the pointer estimated by the hand position estimator to thereby enhance the display of the value represented by the pointer.
A display control method for controlling display of a display having a configurable image display screen disposed on a back of a meter, the meter having a mechanically driven pointer representing a value to be displayed, the display control method comprising:
- rendering, by a renderer, a graphics indicator indicating an indication value of the meter provided in synchronization with the pointer so as to enhance the display of the value represented by the pointer, the graphics indicator being displayed on the display screen of the display;
- determining, by a switching determiner, vehicle status based on an output from a sensor to determine a rendering mode of the display screen;
- estimating, by a display time estimator, a display time at which the graphics indicator is displayed;
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- estimating, by a hand position estimator, a position of the pointer for the display time estimated by the display time estimator, wherein
- changing, by the renderer, a display mode of the graphics indicator displayed on the display screen, according to the rendering mode determined by the switching determiner, and rendering the graphics indicator to indicate the indication value in synchronization with the position of the pointer estimated by the hand position estimator to thereby enhance the display of the value represented by the pointer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.