Patent ID: 7961117

Claim:
A system for creating a variable FOV image presented on a HUD combiner unit, such system comprising: a source for providing navigation system data; a source for providing data associated with eye position; a processor, operatively coupled to receive data, where such processor is configured to receive navigation system data; receive data associated with eye position of a viewer, where the data associated with eye position correlates to a viewer's FOV with respect to a combiner unit mounted inside a compartment that is occupied by the viewer; generate an image data set representative of an image of navigation symbologies representative of the navigation system data, where such image has a variable FOV and is comprised of a plurality of areas to which such navigation symbologies are mapped, such that the image data set is generated by applying the navigation system data and the data associated with eye position to an adaptive FOV function, whereby the variable FOV of the image and the size of at least one area are increased with an increase to the viewer's FOV, and the variable FOV of the image and the size of at least one area are decreased with a decrease to the viewer's FOV, so that the visibility of the navigation symbologies is not interrupted when projected onto the combiner unit; and provide the image data set to a HUD system; and the HUD system, operatively coupled to receive the image data set, wherein such HUD system is configured to receive the image data set, and project the image represented in the image data set onto the combiner unit of the HUD system.