Patent ID: 8924150

Claim:
Method to navigate a vehicle utilizing a graphic projection display, comprising: executing in an enhanced vision system (EVS) system manager the following steps: monitoring an eye location of the user; estimating a gaze location of the user based on the monitored eye location, the gaze location of the user describing a point on a transparent windscreen where eyes of the user are focused; monitoring a navigation status graphic displayed upon the graphic projection display, the navigation status graphic representing a navigational maneuver that the vehicle will autonomously partake at an upcoming location upon a currently travelled roadway, wherein the navigation status graphic is dynamically registered at a location upon the graphic projection display corresponding to the driving scene of the vehicle based upon the gaze location of the user; monitoring a user input indicated to a portion of the graphic projection display corresponding to the location at which the navigation status graphic is presently displayed; manipulating the presently displayed navigation status graphic based upon the monitored user input; initiating a user-defined navigation command corresponding to the manipulated navigation status graphic; and operating the vehicle with an autonomous driving system in accordance with the user-defined navigation command.