Patent Document ID: 20120062372
Application ID: 13287675
Patent Status: 0

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, 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 for the display, 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; and representing the number of objects in their respective positions on the display.