Road sign recognition device and road sign recognition method

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road sign recognition apparatus capable of appropriately communicating a road sign to a passenger.SOLUTION: A road sign recognition apparatus 100 comprises: an image recognition unit 14 detecting a road sign by executing an image recognition process on a picked-up image picked up by imaging a front side of a vehicle by an imaging unit 12 provided in the vehicle; a determination unit 32 determining the degree of importance of the road sign; and a display unit 44 capable of displaying at least two display contents side by side on a screen. If at least two road signs are detected, the first road sign out of the at least two road signs has a first degree of importance higher than a second degree of importance, and the second road sign out of the at least two road signs has the second degree of importance, then the first road sign is always displayed in a predetermined region fixed to a screen as a first display content out of at least two display contents and the second road sign is displayed in the other region of the screen as a second display content out of the at least two display contents at necessary timing.