Situational awareness systems and methods
AssigneeNew Skully, Inc.
InventorsMarcus Daniel Weller, Liang Guan, Andrew Wei Tam
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Abstract
Example systems and methods are described that help increase the situational awareness of a user of a helmet, such as a motorcycle helmet. One or more cameras are physically coupled to the helmet, where each camera includes a lens and an associated image sensor. Each camera is configured to generate a video feed, which is presented to a user on a display. The video feed represents a field-of-view around the helmet, and may be projected onto a surface, such as the visor of the helmet, thereby enabling enhanced situational awareness for the user of the helmet.
Claims12
A helmet comprising:
- an image sensor configured to generate a video signal;
- a lens system optically coupled to the image sensor, wherein the lens system is configured to project a 360-degree field-of-view onto the image sensor;
- a processor configured to process the video signal generated by the image sensor, wherein the video signal includes the 360-degree field-of-view, and wherein the processor is further configured to correct for any distortion present in the video signal and generate a corrected video signal;
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- a projection system that projects the corrected video signal onto a display to offer a 360-degree field-of-view or a portion of the 360-degree field-of-view for viewing by a user of the helmet.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, one or more video streams collectively containing visual information associated with a 360-degree field-of-view;
- independently correcting, by the one or more processors, distortion present in the one or more video streams to generate one or more corrected video streams;
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- projecting, onto a display attached to a helmet, the one or more corrected video streams, for viewing by a user of the helmet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.