Patent ID: 8781170

Claim:
Method to display a ghosting image upon a transparent windscreen head-up display in a source vehicle, the method comprising: monitoring an operating environment of the source vehicle; determining a first ghosting image based upon the operating environment of the source vehicle; determining a current location and a current orientation of the source vehicle travelling upon a current roadway; monitoring historical data for the source vehicle operating upon the current roadway in the past based on the current location and the current orientation of the source vehicle; monitoring instantaneous vehicle behavior characteristics of the source vehicle in a first particular area of the current roadway based on the current location and the current orientation of the source vehicle; identifying past vehicle behavior characteristics of the source vehicle in the first particular area that are indicative of the instantaneous vehicle behavior characteristics based on the monitored historical data; comparing the identified past vehicle behavior characteristics of the source vehicle in the first particular area to a traffic flow condition; predicting adverse traffic flow behavior in a second particular area of the roadway based on corresponding past vehicle behavior characteristics of the source vehicle in the second particular area of the current roadway when the identified past vehicle behavior characteristics satisfy the traffic flow condition, wherein the second particular area succeeds the first particular area in the direction of travel of the source vehicle upon the current roadway; determining a historical ghosting image to prepare the source vehicle for a maneuver in the second particular area on when the adverse traffic flow behavior in the second particular area is predicted; and displaying the first ghosting image and the historical ghosting image upon the head-up display.