Patent Document ID: 9760782
Application ID: 13287675
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for representing objects of varying visibility surrounding a vehicle for a user on a display of a display device from a perspective of an occupant, the surroundings of the vehicle being at least partially automatically recognizable by one or more object recognition devices installed in the vehicle, the method comprising the acts of: determining, based on one or more criteria, whether objects recognized by the one or more object recognition devices is a first object classified to be visible to the occupant or a second object classified to be invisible to the occupant; determining respective positions for a number of recognized objects, the number of recognized objects comprising at least one first object and at least one second object, wherein the respective positions of the number of objects for the display have geometrical relationships between the number of objects corresponding substantially to real geometrical relationships from the perspective of the occupant by virtue of being shifted from a perspective of the one or more object recognition devices to the perspective of the occupant; and displaying, on the display of the display device, the number of recognized objects in corresponding respective positions on the display.