Content visualizing device and method

1. A content visualizing device comprising:

an object detector configured to detect an object in front of the object detector; and

a processor configured to:

control a head-up display (HUD) to form a single projection plane including a left image and a right image on which content is stereoscopically rendered in a 3-dimensional (3D) space in front of a user by providing the left image to a left eye of the user and the right image to a right eye of the user;

determine that a positional overlap between the object and the content occurs in response to a distance to the object in from of the object detector being less than a depth of the content; and

limit, in response to the positional overlap occurring between the object and the content, a depth at which the content is displayed through the HUD to be less than a distance from the object detector to the object, by changing a disparity between a first graphic representation included in the left image for the content and a second graphic representation included in the right image for the content.

2. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , further comprising:

the HUD configured to form the projection plane,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine the depth at which the content is to be visualized based on the projection plane.

3. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

adjust, in a first region in which the object is detected, the depth at which the content is to be visualized, and

maintain, in a second region in which the object is not detected, the depth at which the content is to be visualized.

4. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to change a region in which the content is to be visualized in response to at least one of a change in the distance from the object detector to the object and a horizontal movement of the object.

5. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to change at least one of a position, a size, and a shape of the content based on vehicle information of a vehicle, in response to the content visualizing device being mounted on the vehicle.

6. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to predict a movement of the object, and gradually change at least one of a position, the depth, a size, and a shape of the content based on the predicted movement.

7. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , wherein the object detector comprises a depth sensor configured to measure the distance from the object detector to the object.

8. The content visualizing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

change the depth at which the content is to be visualized with respect to a first region corresponding to a first lane on which the object is positioned, in response to the content visualizing device being mounted on a vehicle, and

maintain the depth at which the content is to be visualized with respect to a second region corresponding to a second lane different from the first lane.

9. A content visualizing method comprising:

detecting, by an object detector, an object in front of the object detector;

controlling a head-up display (HUD) to form a single projection plane including a left image and a right image on which content is stereoscopically rendered in a 3-dimensional (3D) space in front of a user by providing the left image to a left eye of the user and the right image to a right eye of the user;

determining that a positional overlap between the object and the content occurs in response to a distance to the object in front of the object detector being less than a depth of the content; and

limiting, in response to the positional overlap occurring between the object and the content, a depth at which the content is displayed through the HUD to be less than a distance from the object detector to the object, by changing a disparity between a first graphic representation included in the left image for the content and a second graphic representation included in the right image for the content.

10. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the adjusting the depth at which the content is displayed comprises:

forming the projection plane through the HUD; and

determining the depth at which the content is to be visualized based on the projection plane.

11. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the adjusting the depth at which the content is displayed comprises:

adjusting, in a first region in which the object is detected, the depth at which the content is to be visualized; and

maintaining, in a second region in which the object is not detected, the depth at which the content is to be visualized.

12. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the adjusting the depth at which the content is displayed comprises changing a region in which the content is to be visualized in response to at least one of a change in the distance from the object detector to the object and a horizontal movement of the object.

13. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the adjusting the depth at which the content is displayed comprises changing at least one of a position, a size, and a shape of the content based on vehicle information of a vehicle.

14. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the adjusting the depth at which the content is displayed comprises predicting a movement of the object, and gradually changing at least one of a position, the depth, a size, and a shape of the content based on the predicted movement.

15. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the detecting the object comprises measuring the distance from the object detector to the object.

16. The content visualizing method of claim 9 , wherein the adjusting the depth at which the content is displayed comprises:

changing the depth at which the content is to be visualized with respect to a first region corresponding to a first lane on which the object is positioned; and

maintaining the depth at which the content is to be visualized with respect to a second region corresponding to a second lane different from the first lane.