Autonomous Vehicle AR Overlay for Removing Obstructing Traffic Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles face challenges in providing users with a stress-free experience due to the presence of other vehicles and objects in the real-world environment, which can obstruct scenic views and contribute to physiological stress during traffic or other conditions.
Innovation Solution
The method involves using vehicle-to-vehicle communication to collect data from surrounding vehicles, generating augmented reality images that depict the real-world environment without obstructing objects, and displaying these images on an augmented reality display to overlay and eliminate the appearance of other vehicles and objects from the user's view.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If autonomous vehicles operate in self-driving mode with users as passengers, then user convenience and automation level are improved, but users experience physiological stress and helplessness due to observing traffic conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes harmful visual elements (other vehicles and objects causing stress) from the user's field of view by generating augmented reality images that overlay and eliminate these objects, allowing users to benefit from autonomous driving while avoiding the harmful effect of observing traffic conditions
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary augmented reality display system that mediates between the real-world traffic environment and the user's perception, transforming the stressful visual input into a filtered, stress-free view by computationally removing other vehicles and objects
2Loss of information
If users view the real-world environment through autonomous vehicles, then situational awareness is improved, but scenic views are obstructed by other vehicles and objects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copied and modified version of the real-world environment through augmented reality images that replicate the scene without obstructing objects, allowing users to view scenic areas while the system maintains awareness of actual traffic conditions through sensor data
Data Source
AI summary
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for eliminating an appearance of one or more objects in an environment surrounding a vehicle during operation of the vehicle. A method generally includes detecting the one or more objects in first sensor data collected from first sensors onboard the vehicle, wherein the first sensor data is representative of the environment surrounding the vehicle; receiving, from other vehicles, second sensor data collected from second sensors onboard the other vehicles, wherein the second sensor data is representative of the environment surrounding each of the one or more other vehicles; generating one or more augmented reality images depicting portions of the environment obstructed by the one or more objects in the first sensor data; displaying the one or more augmented reality images in an augmented reality display such that the augmented reality images are positioned to overlay the one or more objects.