HUD Facial Recording Alignment in Intelligent Vehicle Cockpits

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Solution Overview

Problem

In intelligent vehicles, the misalignment between the camera and display positions in the cockpit leads to a poor user experience during biometric recognition, as users struggle to simultaneously face the camera and display, resulting in inconvenient information recording processes.

Innovation Solution

The method involves displaying prompt information on a head-up display to guide users in recording facial information, adjusting the face image based on the face attitude angle and position, and adjusting the display angle and height to ensure the information is presented directly in the user's line of sight, allowing for convenient facial information recording without needing to consider the camera and display positions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the camera and display are positioned separately in the cockpit, then the device layout is flexible and installation is easier, but the user cannot face both the camera and display simultaneously, degrading the ease of operation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecamera and display installation flexibilityVSAvoiduser convenience during information recording
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a head-up display (HUD) as an intermediary device to project the display interface onto the windshield or dashboard. This allows the display to appear at a position that aligns with the camera's field of view, enabling the user to face both simultaneously without physically moving between positions. The HUD acts as a mediator that reconciles the spatial separation between camera and display while maintaining installation flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Device complexity

If the display position is fixed away from the camera, then the device structure is simpler, but the user experience during biometric recognition deteriorates due to the need to switch between facing the camera and viewing the display

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay positioning structureVSAvoiduser interaction convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes the windshield or dashboard surface as an additional display dimension by projecting the HUD interface onto it. This transforms the traditional planar display arrangement into a multi-dimensional configuration where the display can be virtually positioned at multiple locations simultaneously. The display information is projected onto the windshield in front of the user, creating a new spatial dimension that aligns with the camera's viewing angle while maintaining the physical display device at its original position.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20240371207A1Information Recording Method and Apparatus, and Transportation Means
Publication Date: 2024.11.07 YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD
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AI summary

An information recording method includes obtaining image information; displaying prompt information on a head-up display based on the image information, where the prompt information is used to guide a user to record facial information; and obtaining the facial information.