Patent ID: 11938819
Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 18:
19. A vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle feature evaluation system for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature, the vehicle feature evaluation system comprising:
a HMD orientation or position and gaze direction determining unit comprising memory storing instructions executed by a processor for determining in relation to a road-driven vehicle, with support from a tracking system, an orientation of a head mounted display, HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant on-board the road-driven vehicle or a position and gaze direction of the occupant on-board the road-driven vehicle;
a design feature determining unit comprising memory storing instructions executed by the processor for determining a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle; and
a HMD or display providing unit comprising memory storing instructions executed by the processor for providing in real-time to a HMD display of the HMD or another display visible to the occupant, taking into consideration the HMD orientation or the position and gaze direction, a virtual representation of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing image derived from real-world perception sensor data captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached perception sensors adapted to capture surroundings internal or external to the road-driven vehicle, wherein the virtual representation of the simulated vehicle design feature replaces an excluded portion of the real-time surrounding-showing image, and wherein the virtual representation of the simulated vehicle design feature and the replaced excluded portion of the real-time surrounding-showing image are varied based on the HMD orientation or the position and gaze direction.