Vision augmentation for supplementing a person's view

A method for supplementing a person's view from at least one of an actual vehicle or a virtual vehicle of an environment through which the vehicle travels, the method comprising:

• receiving data signals representative of operation of the vehicle and representative of objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels;
• converting the data signals into display data representative of the operation of the vehicle and representative of the objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels;
• displaying images representative of the operation of the vehicle and images representative of the objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels to a person to supplement the person's view, such that the images representative of the operation of the vehicle and the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels are superimposed onto a representation of the environment to augment the person's view of the environment;
• comparing, as a comparison, at least one of objects or vehicle motion displayed in the representation of the environment with the images representative of the operation of the vehicle and the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels;
• identifying, based at least in part on the comparison, differences between the objects displayed in the representation of the environment and the images representative of the operation of the vehicle and the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels;
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• controlling the vehicle based at least in part on the differences,
• wherein the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the vehicle travels comprise data associated with at least one of a location of the objects, types of the objects, historical paths of the objects, or predicted paths of the objects.

A method for testing an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:

• supplementing a person's view from the autonomous vehicle of an environment through which the autonomous vehicle travels, the autonomous vehicle comprising an actual vehicle, the supplementing comprising:
• receiving data signals representative of operation of the autonomous vehicle and representative of objects in the environment through which the autonomous vehicle travels;
• converting the data signals into images representative of the operation of the autonomous vehicle and images representative of the objects in the environment through which the autonomous vehicle travels;
• superimposing the images representative of the operation of the autonomous vehicle and the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the autonomous vehicle travels with the person's view from the autonomous vehicle;
• comparing, as a comparison, actual objects viewable by the person from the autonomous vehicle with the images representative of the operation of the autonomous vehicle and the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the autonomous vehicle travels;
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• identifying, based at least in part on the comparison, differences between the actual objects and the images representative of the objects in the environment through which the autonomous vehicle travels.