Patent ID: 8818647
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: B60N,G01G,G02B

Abstract:
1. A vehicle, comprising: a seat in which an occupant sits; a heads-up display assembly that forms an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant; a determining system that determines a location of the head of the occupant sitting in said seat; a control unit that determines, based on the location of the head of the occupant sitting in said seat as determined by said determining system, a location of said seat to improve positioning of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly; and an adjustment system coupled to said control unit and that, while the occupant is sitting in said seat, automatically adjusts said seat to the seat location determined by said control unit to thereby improve an orientation of the occupant relative to the image being formed by said heads-up display assembly, which automatic adjustment is thus based on the location of the head of the occupant as determined by said determining system and a location at which the image is being formed by said heads-up display assembly.