Patent ID: 11942011
Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A display control method performed by a display control device, the display control method comprising:
a display region setting step of changing a position of a boundary line of one or a plurality of display regions provided on a screen to dynamically change a size of the one or plurality of display regions;
a priority setting step of setting relative priority with respect to a plurality of display objects arranged on one of the plurality of display regions; and
a display control step of setting attribute information indicating visible or invisible for the plurality of display objects and controlling display of the plurality of display objects, based on a positional relationship between the plurality of display objects on the one of the plurality of display regions and the attribute information, wherein
the display control step includes, in a case where a positional relationship between the plurality of display objects on the one of the plurality of display regions is changed in accordance with downsizing of the one of the plurality of display regions and the plurality of display objects are close to each other at a predetermined distance or shorter,
when display objects having a priority less than a predetermined value among the display objects arranged on the one of the plurality of display regions changing the attribute information from visible to invisible in accordance with the priority order from a lower priority, and hiding the one or more display objects changed to be invisible as the attribute information, and
when the one of the plurality of display regions is further downsized after hiding all the display objects having the priority less than the predetermined value, the display object having a priority equal to or greater than the predetermined value maintaining a display state of the one or more display objects without changing the attribute information from visible to invisible, and canceling further downsizing of the one of the plurality of display regions.