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US 8,818,647 B2Granted
Vehicular heads-up display system
AssigneeAmerican Vehicular Sciences LLC
InventorDavid S. Breed
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Abstract
Heads-up display arrangements for vehicles including a seat in which an occupant sits, a system for forming an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant, a determination arrangement for determining a position of the occupant (or a part thereof) and an adjustment system for adjusting the seat based on the occupant's determined position to thereby change the orientation of the occupant relative to the image. Change of the orientation of the occupant relative to the image may entail adjusting the seat and/or adjusting the image forming system, which is often a heads-up display system. Adjustment of the seat may involve moving the seat forward or backward and/or up or down, or any other direction or way possible given the construction of the seat.
Claims21
A vehicle, comprising:
- a seat in which an occupant sits;
- a heads-up display assembly that forms an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant;
- a determining system that determines a location of the head of the occupant sitting in said seat;
- a control unit that determines, based on the location of the head of the occupant sitting in said seat as determined by said determining system, a location of said seat to improve positioning of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly;
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- an adjustment system coupled to said control unit and that, while the occupant is sitting in said seat, automatically adjusts said seat to the seat location determined by said control unit to thereby improve an orientation of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly, which automatic adjustment is thus based on the location of the head of the occupant as determined by said determining system and a location at which the image is being formed by said heads-up display assembly.
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A seating system in a vehicle, comprising:
- a seat in which an occupant sits;
- a display assembly that forms an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant;
- a determining system that determines a location of the head of the occupant sitting in the said seat;
- a control unit that determines, based on the location of the head of the occupant sitting in said seat as determined by said determining system, a location of said seat to improve positioning of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly;
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- an adjustment system coupled to said control unit and that, while the occupant is sitting in said seat, automatically adjusts said seat to the seat location determined by said control unit to thereby improve an orientation of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly, which automatic adjustment is thus based on the location of the head of the occupant as determined by the determining system and a location at which the image is being formed by the heads-up display assembly.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a seat in which an occupant sits;
- a heads-up display assembly that forms an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant;
- a determining system that determines a position of the occupant sitting in said seat or part of the occupant sitting in said seat;
- a control unit that determines, based on the position of the occupant sitting in said seat or part of the occupant siting in said seat as determined by said determining system a location of said seat to improve positioning of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly;
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- an adjustment system coupled to said control unit and that, while the occupant is sitting in said seat, automatically adjusts said seat to the seat location determined by said control unit to thereby improve an orientation of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly, which automatic adjustment is thus based on the position of the occupant sitting in said seat or part of the occupant sitting in said seat as determined by said determining system and a location at which the image is being formed by said heads-up display assembly;
- wherein said heads-up display assembly forms an image of an exterior of the vehicle and adds an overlay image to the image,
- said heads-up display assembly determining a type of overlay image to be added, types of overlay images including warning messages, projected vehicle trajectories, and images of objects in the exterior environment.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a seat in which an occupant sits;
- a heads-up display assembly that forms an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant and exterior of the vehicle;
- an occupant position sensor system that determines a location of the head of the occupant in said seat;
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- a control unit that determines, based on the location of the head of the occupant in said seat as determined by said occupant position sensor system, a location of said seat to improve positioning of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly;
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- means coupled to said control unit for automatically changing an orientation of the occupant, while the occupant is sitting in said seat, based on the location of said seat as determined by said control unit, the change in orientation thus being based on the location of the head of the occupant in said seat as determined by said occupant position sensor system and a location at which the image is being formed by said heads-up display assembly,
- the change in orientation of the occupant caused by said means resulting in said seat being in the seat location determined by said control unit to enable the occupant's eyes to be positioned in an optimum position relative to the image.
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A method for adjusting a seat of an occupant using a display assembly in a vehicle, the method comprising:
- forming, using the display assembly, an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant;
- determining a location of the head of the occupant sitting in the seat;
- determining, based on the determined location of the head of the occupant sitting in the seat, a location of the seat to improve positioning of the occupant relative to the image being formed by the heads-up display assembly;
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- automatically adjusting the seat, while the occupant is sitting in the seat, to the determined seat location to improve an orientation of the occupant relative to the image being formed by the display assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.