Patent ID: 8686873

Claim:
A system for providing visual information to a driver of a first vehicle, comprising: at least one camera or sensor which is not on the first vehicle but which captures image data that includes a view of a road within a vicinity of the first vehicle; a receiver which receives image data from the at least one camera or sensor; a decision unit which receives the image data from receiver and which identifies information in the image data which a driver of the first vehicle needs to be informed of; and a display unit on the first vehicle which displays information transmitted to the first vehicle in a view that displays information determined to be missing in the first vehicle's current line of sight, so that the otherwise missing information can be observed by a driver of the first vehicle, wherein the decision unit includes: a common model generator configured to generate a common model, the common model being a representation of the area within the vicinity of the first vehicle; and an informative view determination unit configured to determine the information in the image data which the driver of the first vehicle needs to be informed of based on analyzing the common model, and the informative view determination unit determines the information in the image data which the driver of the first vehicle needs to be informed of based on a determination that an object contained in the image data is not within a line of unobstructed sight of the first vehicle.