Patent ID: 11972532
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A display control method of displaying a virtual object on a display of a display terminal, the display terminal comprising the display, a color image camera configured to acquire a color image of a predetermined photographing range, and a distance image camera configured to acquire a distance image of the photographing range,
the display control method comprising the steps of:
specifying a region of the virtual object behind a structural object in a line-of-sight direction as a rear region, based on the three-dimensional map of the structural object existing within the photographing range, which has been created in advance by using the color image and the distance image, and real space placement position data of the virtual object to be displayed; and
generating display data processed so that the rear region is hidden; and
displaying an additional object around the virtual object that show how a structure has been penetrated or how a hole has opened in the structure in case where the display data is corrected to display the rear region on display.