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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2017
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Takayoshi Chikuri, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a display control device mounted in a vehicle and including: an irradiation control unit for controlling an irradiating unit that irradiates a road surface with reference light; and a projection control unit for controlling a projecting unit that projects an image onto a reflecting unit that reflects the image, in which the irradiation control unit instructs the irradiating unit to perform irradiation with the reference light, the irradiation corresponding to set irradiation distance information, and the projection control unit instructs the projecting unit to perform projection of an image in such a way that a virtual image corresponding to the irradiation distance information is visually recognized by an occupant of the vehicle, and also controls either a projection position or a projection size of the image projected by the projecting unit on the basis of an instruction of the occupant.