Patent Document ID: 9849835
Application ID: 14627117
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of operating a head-up display for a vehicle, the method comprising the acts of: determining a vehicle environment model based on a first image of a sequence of images of the vehicle environment captured via a sensor unit of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle environment includes a real object detected in the first image for which an absolute position and/or a relative position with respect to the vehicle has been determined; determining an original graphic based on the environment model, the original graphic corresponding to the real object and projected onto a display field of the head-up display such that the graphic is perceived by the viewer of the display field from a predetermined viewing position with direct reference to the real object, wherein the real object is also perceivable by the viewer through the display field from the predetermined viewing position; determining a corrected graphic corresponding to the real object and based on the original graphic, the vehicle environment model, and a second image of the image sequence, the second image captured a predetermined period of time after the first image and including the real object, wherein the corrected graphic compensates for latency and/or delay times associated with the display of the original graphic; and projecting the corrected graphic on to the display field such that the graphic is perceived by the viewer from the predetermined viewing position with direct reference to the real object also perceivable by the viewer through the display field from the predetermined viewing position, wherein a detail of the second image is determined, which detail comprises the real object, based on a determined intrinsic movement of the vehicle, and the corrected graphic is determined based on the detail of the second image.