Patent ID: 8547298

Claim:
Method to display a graphic illustrating an operational environment of a vehicle, the method comprising: monitoring informational inputs describing the operational environment of the vehicle, the informational inputs obtained only from one or more vehicle sensors of the vehicle; processing the informational inputs, comprising identifying a plurality of features present in the operational environment based on the monitored informational inputs, comparing each feature to a likelihood for collision threshold, and discerning each feature as corresponding to one of critical information related to a collision threat and non-critical information not related to the collision threat, each feature discerned as corresponding to the non-critical information not warranting graphical display upon a non-transparent component of the vehicle; monitoring location of the eyes of an operator of the vehicle; determining one or more registered graphics, each registered graphic indicating required attention only to respective ones of the features discerned as corresponding to the critical information hidden from a view of the operator by the non-transparent component of the vehicle based upon the location of the eyes of the operator and describing the critical information, wherein each graphic comprises a rectangle graphic located to each respective feature discerned as corresponding to the critical information hidden from the view of the operator by the non-transparent component; and displaying the one or more registered graphics describing the critical information hidden from the view of the operator upon the non-transparent component of the vehicle, the non-transparent component comprising a material reactive to display graphics in response to an excitation projector.