Vehicle display enhancements
AssigneeTK Holdings Inc.
InventorsAdrian Valentin Muresan, William Todd Watson
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Abstract
A system and method for enhancing display content includes receiving a video signal made up of video frames from at least one image sensor and identifying a driving path based at least in part on steering wheel data. The system and method also includes performing a first segmentation on the at least one video frame to divide the at least one video frame into a plurality of segments containing input pixel data, altering input pixel data based on a segment associated with the input pixel data to create output pixel data and providing the at least one video frame comprising the output pixel data to a display.
Claims16
A method for enhancing display content in a vehicle comprising:
- receiving a video signal comprising at least one video frame from at least one image sensor;
- identifying a driving path based at least in part on vehicle data;
- performing a first segmentation on the at least one video frame to divide the at least one video frame into a plurality of segments containing input pixel data;
- altering input pixel data based on a segment associated with the input pixel data to create output pixel data;
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- providing the at least one video frame comprising the output pixel data to a display,
- wherein the input pixel data comprises pixel luminance, and
- wherein altering input pixel data comprises
- altering the input pixel luminance to create a distribution of output pixel luminance for all pixels contained in at least one driving path segment according to a predetermined function, and
- altering the input pixel luminance to create a distribution of output pixel luminance for all pixels contained in a non-driving path segment according to a predetermined function.
An apparatus for enhancing display content in a vehicle comprising:
- at least one image sensor configured to output a video signal comprising at least one video frame;
- a steering wheel positioning module configured to detect vehicle data;
- a driving path module configured to identify a driving path based at least in part on the vehicle data;
- at least one processing device configured to:
- perform a first segmentation on the at least one video frame to divide the at least one video frame into a plurality of segments containing input pixel data, the input pixel data comprising pixel luminance;
- alter input pixel data based on a segment associated with the input pixel data wherein the altered pixel data are output pixel data, wherein altering input pixel data comprises
- altering the input pixel luminance to create a distribution of output pixel luminance for all pixels contained in at least one driving path segment according to a predetermined function, and
- altering the input pixel luminance to create a distribution of output pixel luminance for all pixels contained in a non-driving path segment according to a predetermined function;
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- provide the at least one video frame comprising the output pixel data to a display.
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