Holographic head-up control panel
AssigneeHughes Aircraft Company
InventorGaylord E. Moss
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Abstract
A head-up holographic display for providing a display on a vehicle windshield of a control panel and indications of the vehicle operator's manual movements and manual selection operations on the control panel. The display includes a number of edge-illuminatable hologram layers providing a background display and touch and activation indications. Signals from the control panel selectively illuminate respective layers and portions thereof in response to operations on the control panel to create a windshield display thereof. In a second embodiment, a head-up virtual image background display is provided by a first hologram and dots indicative of the driver's finger position on the control panel are positioned on the background display by selective illumination of a second hologram.
Claims13
A display comprising:
- a windshield in front of a viewer's face;
- a control panel means responsive to the viewer's manual movements;
- and
- means including a hologram means applied to said windshield for displaying an indication of said manual movements in a line of sight through said windshield.
A display comprising:
- a windshield in front of a viewer's face;
- a control panel means responsive to the viewer's manual movements;
- and
- means for displaying an indication of said manual movements in a line of sight through said windshield,
- wherein said manual movements include a touch movement and an enable movement and wherein said control panel includes a switch means providing a touch indication and an enable indication and wherein said means for displaying is operative to display an indication that said switch means is being touched and is thereafter operative to display an indication that said switch means has been enabled.
A display comprising:
- a windshield in front of a viewer's face;
- a control panel means responsive to the viewer's hand movements;
- and
- means for displaying an indication of said hand movements in a line of sight through said windshield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.