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DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS

  • US 20140327533A1
  • Filed: 10/23/2012
  • Published: 11/06/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A display control apparatus for assigning a content to an area configured as a display region on a screen of a display mounted to a vehicle and for displaying the content, the display control apparatus comprising:

  • a mediation section selecting either one of a present content and a new content different from the present content as a display target of the area based on an importance degree of a new instruction and an importance degree of an effective instruction when the new instruction, which is a new display instruction to display the new content to the area, is generated during displaying of the present content on the area, wherein the effective instruction is a display instruction to display the present content;

    a content assignment section performs assignment of the new content or the present content as the display target to the area based on a result of the selecting by the mediation section; and

    a storage control section storing the new instruction as a wait instruction in an arrangement instruction management section when the new instruction is not selected,wherein;

    a display instruction has information indicating permission or prohibition of waiting;

    when the new instruction has the information indicating the permission of waiting, the storage control section stores the new instruction as the wait instruction in the arrangement instruction management section;

    after performing the assignment based on the content selected by the mediation section, the content assignment section assigns the content to the area based on the wait instruction stored in the arrangement instruction management section; and

    when the new instruction has the information indicating the prohibition of waiting, the storage control section is prohibited from storing the new instruction as the wait instruction in the arrangement instruction management section.

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