Safety system for augmenting roadway objects on a heads-up display
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- monitoring, with one or more processors of a vehicle, for a roadway object based in part on geographical data describing a present geographic location of the vehicle and an electronic map that describes a plurality of clusters along one or more roadways that are included in the electronic map, wherein a cluster includes a geographic area that includes one or more roadway objects that are determined to be frequently overlooked by other users;
detecting the roadway object;
generating graphical data configured to emphasize the roadway object on a heads-up display of the vehicle;
determining whether a user sees the roadway object;
responsive to the user failing to see the roadway object, determining whether the roadway object is critical, wherein the roadway object is determined to be critical based on a ranked hierarchy of different categories of roadway objects and the highest ranked category is a school zone; and
responsive to the roadway object being critical, enhancing a graphic output on the heads-up display to get the user'"'"'s attention.
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Abstract
The disclosure includes a system and method for providing a heads-up display in a vehicle for alerting users to roadway objects. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: monitor, with the one or more processors, for a roadway object; detect, with the one or more processors, the roadway object; generate graphical data configured to emphasize the roadway object on a heads-up display; determine whether a user sees the roadway object; responsive to the user failing to see the roadway object, determine whether the roadway object is critical; and responsive to the roadway object being critical, enhance a graphic output on the heads-up display to get the user'"'"'s attention.
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22 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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monitoring, with one or more processors of a vehicle, for a roadway object based in part on geographical data describing a present geographic location of the vehicle and an electronic map that describes a plurality of clusters along one or more roadways that are included in the electronic map, wherein a cluster includes a geographic area that includes one or more roadway objects that are determined to be frequently overlooked by other users; detecting the roadway object; generating graphical data configured to emphasize the roadway object on a heads-up display of the vehicle; determining whether a user sees the roadway object; responsive to the user failing to see the roadway object, determining whether the roadway object is critical, wherein the roadway object is determined to be critical based on a ranked hierarchy of different categories of roadway objects and the highest ranked category is a school zone; and responsive to the roadway object being critical, enhancing a graphic output on the heads-up display to get the user'"'"'s attention. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium including a computer-readable program, wherein the computer-readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
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monitor for a roadway object; detect the roadway object; generate graphical data configured to emphasize the roadway object on a heads-up display; determine whether a user sees the roadway object; responsive to the user failing to see the roadway object, determine whether the roadway object is critical based on a ranked hierarchy of categories, wherein a school zone is the highest ranked category included in the ranked hierarchy, a pedestrian crosswalk sign is a second highest ranked category included in the ranked hierarchy, a stop sign is a third highest ranked category included in the ranked hierarchy, a sign indicating a roadway condition is a fourth highest ranked category included in the ranked hierarchy and a speed limit sign is a fifth highest ranked category included in the ranked hierarchy; and responsive to the roadway object being critical, enhance a graphic output on the heads-up display to get the user'"'"'s attention. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system comprising:
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a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to; monitor for a roadway object based on an electronic map describing locations for a plurality of roadway objects that are determined to be frequently overlooked by users; detect the roadway object; generate graphical data configured to emphasize the roadway object on a heads-up display; determine whether a user sees the roadway object; responsive to the user failing to see the roadway object, determine whether the roadway object is critical based on a ranked hierarchy of categories wherein the highest ranked category is a school zone; and responsive to the roadway object being critical, enhance a graphic output on the heads-up display to get the user'"'"'s attention. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving object data from a plurality of vehicles driven by a plurality of users, wherein the object data describes a plurality roadway objects that are overlooked by the plurality of users and the geographic location of the plurality of roadway objects; analyzing, by the server, the object data to identify a plurality of roadway objects that are overlooked by users of the plurality of vehicles; determining, by the server, one or more clusters of roadway objects that are overlooked by users of the plurality of vehicles, wherein each cluster includes a geographic area where the object data indicates difficulty for the plurality of users to see roadway objects; generating, by the server, an electronic map including the one or more clusters along one or more roadways that are included in the electronic map, wherein the clusters are associated with a ranked hierarchy of categories wherein the highest ranked category is a school zone; and transmitting the electronic map to a vehicle, wherein the electronic map is operable so that the vehicle analyzes the electronic map to proactively identify that a journey of the vehicle includes a cluster included in the electronic map and the vehicle proactively uses a heads-up display unit of the vehicle to emphasize one or more roadway objects included in the geographic area of the cluster based at least in part on whether the one or more roadway objects are critical as indicated by the ranked hierarchy.
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22. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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monitoring, by an onboard computer of a vehicle, for a roadway object based in part on geographical data describing a present geographic location of the vehicle and an electronic map that describes a plurality of clusters along one or more roadways that are included in the electronic map, wherein a cluster includes a geographic area that includes one or more roadway objects that are determined to be frequently overlooked by other users and the one or more roadway objects are associated with a ranked hierarchy of categories wherein the highest ranked category is a school zone; identifying a roadway object present in one of the plurality of clusters; proactively generating graphical data configured to emphasize the roadway object on a heads-up display of the vehicle; and displaying a graphical element on the heads-up display of the vehicle, wherein the graphic element is generated based on the graphical data based in part on whether the roadway object emphasized by the graphic element is critical as indicated by the ranked hierarchy.
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