Vehicle display systems including environmental light painting

Abstract

New augmented reality display systems for motor vehicles are provided. In some embodiments, such systems include at least partially transparent display window(s), object sensor(s) and projector(s) configured for environmental light painting of real-world objects, enhancing a user's view. In some embodiments, such a system includes a matrix of light-augmenting and attenuating pixels within a variable-transmission display screen window of a motor vehicle. In some aspects, such a system assesses collision and other dangers posed by such real-world object(s), and projects collimated light or other electromagnetic radiation onto the object(s) and other environmental features. In some embodiments, such electromagnetic radiation is of a wavelength outside of the visible spectrum, and the display system includes sensors for sensing such radiation projected onto real-world objects, and displays images formed by such projections on such a display window. In some embodiments, such radiation may be encoded, and visible only through an authorized display.

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