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US 2021/0241723 A1Published application
Augmented reality system
AssigneeMcLaren Automotive Limited
InventorsStephen Gordon David Tucker, Hugo Peter Cohn, Simon Lacey
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Abstract
An augmented reality system for assisting the driver of a vehicle comprising a display headset, a positioning system and a display driver configured to generate graphic elements which appear to the driver to move independently with respect to one another.
Claims21
An augmented reality system for assisting the driver of a vehicle being driven on a surface in an environment, the environment including one or more dynamic bodies, the system comprising:
- a display headset comprising an at least partially transparent display pane;
- a positioning system configured to determine the relative positions of the display headset, the vehicle, the surface and at least one dynamic body external to the vehicle;
- and
- a display driver configured to generate, in dependence on the relative positions determined by the positioning system, graphic elements on the at least partially transparent display pane, the display driver being configured such that, to a wearer of the display headset, at least one graphic element appears stationary relative to the display headset;
- at least one graphic element appears stationary relative to the vehicle notwithstanding motion of the display headset relative to the vehicle;
- at least one graphic element appears stationary relative to the surface;
- and
- at least one graphic element appears stationary relative to the at least one dynamic body external to the vehicle.
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A method comprising:
- determining the relative positions of:
- a vehicle;
- a display headset worn by a driver of the vehicle;
- a surface on which the vehicle is being driven;
- one or more dynamic bodies of an environment in which the vehicle is being driven, the one or more dynamic bodies being external to the vehicle;
- and
- generating first, second, third and fourth graphic elements on an at least partially transparent display pane of the display headset such that each graphic element appears, to the wearer of the display headset, to move independently with respect to each of the other graphic elements and wherein
- the first graphic element appears, to a wearer of the display headset, stationary relative to the display headset;
- the second graphic element appears, to a wearer of the display headset, stationary relative to the vehicle notwithstanding motion of the display headset relative to the vehicle;
- the third graphic element appears, to a wearer of the display headset, stationary relative to the surface;
- and
- the fourth graphic element appears, to a wearer of the display headset, stationary relative to the at least one dynamic body external to the vehicle.
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