Patent ID: 11935200
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 6:
7. A system for displaying infrastructure information in a vehicle, comprising:
a multi-focal plane augmented reality display;
a plurality of sensors;
a controller in communication with the plurality of sensors and the multi-focal plane augmented reality display, wherein the controller is configured to:
receive infrastructure data from at least one of the plurality of sensors, wherein the infrastructure data includes information about a location of at least one infrastructure along a route of the vehicle;
receive vehicle-location data from at last one of the plurality of sensors, wherein the vehicle-location data includes information about a location of the vehicle;
determine a position of the vehicle relative to the location of the least one infrastructure using the infrastructure data and the vehicle-location data;
determine a size of a virtual image based on a distance from the vehicle to the at least one infrastructure along the route of the vehicle, wherein the size of the virtual image is inversely proportional to the distance from the vehicle to the at least one infrastructure; and
transmit a command signal to the multi-focal plane augmented reality display to display the virtual image showing the infrastructure information of the at least one infrastructure on the multi-focal plane augmented reality display;

wherein the at least one infrastructure is at least one point-of-interest (POI) along the route of the vehicle, and the infrastructure information is information about the POI;
wherein the controller is further configured to:
determine whether the at least one POI is located along the route of the vehicle using the infrastructure data; and
in response to determining that the at least one POI is located along the route of the vehicle, command the multi-focal plane augmented reality display to display the virtual image;

wherein the virtual image includes information about the POI located along the route of the vehicle;
wherein the controller is configured to receive a selection from a user, wherein the selection is indicative of a type of the at least one POI that the user wants identified on the multi-focal plane augmented reality display, the multi-focal plane augmented reality display shows solely the virtual image associated with the type of the at least one POI selected by the user, and the type of the at least one POI is coffee shop; and
wherein the multi-focal plane augmented reality display has a first image plane and a second image plane, the first image plane and the second image planes are at different locations, the first image plane shows a view of an outside world, a second image plane is reserved for displaying the virtual image, and the second image plane appears at a location farther on a roadway surface relative to the first image plane while the vehicle travels along the roadway surface, the second image plane starts at a first predetermined distance from the vehicle and ends at a second predetermined distance, the second predetermined distance is greater than the first predetermined distance, the second image plane includes a first linear boundary arranged horizontally relative to the roadway surface, the first linear boundary is at the first predetermined distance from the vehicle, the second image plane is delimited by a sloped linear boundary that starts at the first predetermined distance from the vehicle and ends at a third predetermined distance from the vehicle, the sloped linear boundary is obliquely angled relative to the first linear boundary, the third predetermined distance is greater than the first predetermined distance, the third predetermined distance is less than the second predetermined distance, and the second image plane includes a second linear boundary that is arranged parallel to the roadway surface, the slopped linear boundary is obliquely angled relative to the second linear boundary, and the second linear boundary starts at the third predetermined distance from the vehicle and ends at the second predetermined distance from the vehicle, the first predetermined distance is twenty-five meters, the second predetermined distance is ninety meters, and the third predetermined distance is fifty meters.