Display system
OwnerKeith David STICKELSinventor
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Abstract
A display system for displaying a layout of controls in a simulator including at least one of an information display, a switch such as a toggle or push-button switch, and a monitoring device such as an indicator, or a gauge, for a vehicle, the display system including a touch sensitive screen which is generally transparent over a significant portion of its area, and a plurality of projectors which project onto a back of the screen, images of the vehicle controls, the projectors each being operatively connected to a computer controller which responds to the front of the screen being touched where a depicted control is displayed, to change the display in a manner to mimic the result of a corresponding actual vehicle control being operated.
Claims17
(canceled)
A virtual display system for a simulated vehicle comprising:
- a back-projected touch sensitive display screen;
- a computer controller which
- displays virtual controls for the simulated vehicle in a selected layout on said display screen,
- senses touching of at least one of the virtual controls displayed on said display screen and changes the displaying of the virtual controls on said display screen to mimic a result of a corresponding actual vehicle control being operated, and
- reconfigures the selected layout of the virtual controls on said display screen in response to an associated input.
A virtual display system for controlling an actual vehicle comprising:
- a back-projected touch sensitive display screen;
- a computer controller which
- displays virtual controls for the actual vehicle in a selected layout on said display screen,
- senses touching of at least one of the virtual controls displayed on said display screen and sends a signal to operate an associated control actuator of the actual vehicle, and
- reconfigures the selected layout of the virtual controls on said display screen in response to an associated input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.