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US 10,369,928 B2Granted
Environment-dependent interface
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsCarsten Starke, Stefan Wolter
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Abstract
According to the disclosure, a method is made available to reduce a time duration for an adaption of eyes of a driver of a motor vehicle when changing from events occurring in front of the motor vehicle to a screen arranged in a driver's compartment of the motor vehicle. In particular, the method according to the disclosure also makes a reduction available in the time period for the adaption of the eyes of the driver in the opposite direction.
Claims17
A method to reduce a time duration for a driver-eye adaption comprising:
- changing a direction of view from events occurring in front of a vehicle to a screen arranged in a driver's compartment;
- recording an image sequence of the events via a camera arranged in a vehicle direction of travel;
- processing the image sequence to reduce a sharpness impression of individual images of the image sequence via reducing resolution;
- displaying the processed image sequence as a background image;
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- displaying, in a foreground, a menu that is independent of the image sequence.
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A vehicle apparatus comprising:
- a screen arranged in a driver compartment to simultaneously display a processed image sequence as a background of a menu, being independent of the processed image sequence, in a foreground;
- a camera arranged in a travel direction to record an image sequence;
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- a processing module configured to generate a sharpness-impression reduced image sequence from the image sequence via a reduction of at least one of a contrast range and a resolution, and output the sharpness-impression reduced image sequence as the processed image sequence.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a screen arranged in a compartment to simultaneously display a background processed image, and a foreground menu independent of the processed image;
- a camera to record an image at a frequency based on a vehicle speed that adopts lower and upper limits, the lower limit being selected such that the image is stationary, the upper limit being selected such that the image is flicker-free;
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- a processor to generate the processed image, the processor further configured to, in response to dividing the image into time segments and averaging over individual images in respective time segments, prepare an averaged image being an average of the individual images.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.