Systems and methods for ambient animation and projecting ambient animation on an interface
AssigneesDENSO International America, Inc., Denso Corporation
InventorsGareth Webb, Dustin Garrett, Cary Horvath
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Abstract
An ambient animation system, including an image sensor configured to capture an image of an environment outside of a vehicle, a display interface configured to display information to a driver of the vehicle, and a controller in communication with the image sensor and the display interface and configured to generate a virtual spherical lighting object, shape the image to fit around the virtual spherical lighting object, and project a portion of the image fitted around the virtual spherical lighting object onto the display interface.
Claims18
An ambient animation system, comprising:
- an image sensor configured to capture an image of an environment outside of a vehicle;
- a display interface configured to display information to a driver of the vehicle;
- and
- a controller in communication with the image sensor and the display interface and configured to
- generate a virtual spherical lighting object,
- shape the image to fit around the virtual spherical lighting object, and
- project at least one color from the image fitted around the virtual spherical lighting object onto the display interface as background lighting for the display interface without projecting the image of the environment onto the display interface;
- wherein the display interface includes a meter cluster configured to absorb a lighting situation from the environment outside of the vehicle by projecting, with the controller, the at least one color from the image fitted around the virtual spherical lighting object with an intensity of light matching the at least one color in the image of the environment outside of the vehicle.
An ambient animation method, comprising:
- capturing an image of a scenery outside of a vehicle with an image sensor;
- generating, with a controller, a virtual spherical lighting object;
- shaping, with the controller, the image to fit around the virtual spherical lighting object;
- and
- projecting, with the controller, at least one color from the image that is fitted around the virtual spherical lighting object onto a display interface as background lighting for the display interface without projecting the image of the scenery onto the display interface;
- wherein the display interface includes a meter cluster configured to absorb a lighting situation from the scenery outside of the vehicle by projecting, with the controller, the at least one color from the image fitted around the virtual spherical lighting object with an intensity of light matching the at least one color in the image of the scenery outside of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.