Patent ID: 8521423

Claim:
An in-vehicle display apparatus, which is coupled to a terminal device having a terminal display section, comprising: an in-vehicle display section equipped to a vehicle; and a display controller that controls the in-vehicle display section to display a pseudo terminal display window, which indicates a terminal display window displayed on the terminal display section of the terminal device, a mark detector that obtains pixel information of the terminal display window from the terminal device in a sequential manner, and detects at least one of a predetermined mark and a predetermined color preliminarily stored as a scale-up mark for defining a specified region of the terminal display window according to the pixel information, an image contents determination device that determines whether the terminal display window indicates a present position map, which includes information of a present position of the vehicle, wherein the pseudo terminal display window includes an entire pseudo terminal display window, which indicates an entire region of the terminal display window, and a scaled-up specified region display window, which indicates the specified region of the terminal display window, wherein the display controller controls the in-vehicle display section to display the entire pseudo terminal display window, the entire pseudo terminal display window being converted from the entire region of the terminal display window, wherein the display controller further controls the in-vehicle display section to display the scaled-up specified region display window in an available region, which is not overlapped with the entire pseudo terminal display window in the in-vehicle display section, the scaled-up specified region display window being prepared by scaling up the specified region displayed in the entire pseudo terminal display window to be larger than the specified region displayed in the entire pseudo terminal display window, wherein the scale-up mark further includes one or more mark items, wherein the specified region further includes one or more sub specified regions defined by the one or more mark items, respectively, wherein the scaled-up specified region display window further includes one or more sub display windows, which correspond to the one or more sub specified regions, respectively, and wherein, when the image contents determination device determines that the terminal display window indicates the present position map, the display controller controls the in-vehicle display section to display each of the one or more sub display windows: in a predetermined size; in the available region of the in-vehicle display section, which is not overlapped with the entire pseudo terminal display window; and in ascending order of a distance from the present position of the vehicle to a position indicated by each of the one or more sub specified regions.