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Continuation of exterior view on interior pillars and surfaces

  • US 8,547,298 B2
  • Filed: 09/21/2009
  • Issued: 10/01/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2009
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Method to display a graphic illustrating an operational environment of a vehicle, the method comprising:

  • monitoring informational inputs describing the operational environment of the vehicle, the informational inputs obtained only from one or more vehicle sensors of the vehicle;

    processing the informational inputs, comprisingidentifying a plurality of features present in the operational environment based on the monitored informational inputs,comparing each feature to a likelihood for collision threshold, anddiscerning each feature as corresponding to one of critical information related to a collision threat and non-critical information not related to the collision threat, each feature discerned as corresponding to the non-critical information not warranting graphical display upon a non-transparent component of the vehicle;

    monitoring location of the eyes of an operator of the vehicle;

    determining one or more registered graphics, each registered graphic indicating required attention only to respective ones of the features discerned as corresponding to the critical information hidden from a view of the operator by the non-transparent component of the vehicle based upon the location of the eyes of the operator and describing the critical information, wherein each graphic comprises a rectangle graphic located to each respective feature discerned as corresponding to the critical information hidden from the view of the operator by the non-transparent component; and

    displaying the one or more registered graphics describing the critical information hidden from the view of the operator upon the non-transparent component of the vehicle, the non-transparent component comprising a material reactive to display graphics in response to an excitation projector.

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