Head-Up Display
AssigneeEnvisics Ltd
InventorJamieson Christmas
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Abstract
There is provided a head-up display comprising a glare trap; and an eye-box, wherein the head-up display comprises: a picture generating unit; an optical system comprising at least one mirror and a beam splitter, wherein the beam splitter is substantially reflective to infrared light and transmissive to visible light; an infrared image capture device disposed within a volume of the optical system; and a plurality of infrared light sources packaged with the glare trap, wherein the infrared light sources are arranged to illuminate the eye-box.
Claims20
A head-up display comprising
- a glare trap;
- and
- an eye-box,
- wherein the head-up display comprises:
- a picture generating unit;
- an optical system comprising at least one mirror and a beam splitter, wherein the beam splitter is substantially reflective to infrared light and transmissive to visible light;
- an infrared image capture device disposed within a volume of the optical system;
- and
- a plurality of infrared light sources packaged with the glare trap, wherein the infrared light sources are arranged to illuminate the eye-box.
A method for head-up display, the method comprising:
- providing a glare trap;
- generating a picture;
- conducting light of the picture to an eye-box for viewing by a viewer, via transmission through a beam splitter that is substantially reflective to infrared light and transmissive to visible light, and reflection off of a mirror;
- illuminating the eye-box with a plurality of infrared light sources packaged with the glare trap;
- and conducting infrared light from the eye-box to an infrared image capture device via an infrared light path comprising a reflection off of the beam splitter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.