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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2018
Applicant:

Valeo Comfort and Driving Assistance, Creteil, FR;

Inventors:

Christopher Steven Nowakowski, San Francisco, CA (US);

Siav-Kuong Kuoch, Saint Maur des fossés, FR;

Alexandre Jacques Garnault, San Mateo, CA (US);

Mohamed Amr Mohamed Nader Abuelfoutouh, San Mateo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/00 (2011.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/006 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G08G 1/22 (2013.01); B60R 2300/105 (2013.01); B60R 2300/303 (2013.01); B60R 2300/70 (2013.01); B60R 2300/802 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are presented for providing a mixed-reality scene involving a lead vehicle and a following vehicle. The system may present a sequence of mixed-reality images to a driver of the following vehicle, resulting from merging (a) an image captured by a camera aboard the lead vehicle and (b) an image captured by a camera aboard the following vehicle, to generate a merged image. The system may discontinue or diminish mixed-reality content of the sequence of mixed-reality images in response to one or more detected conditions, which may comprise detection of an object between the lead vehicle and the following vehicle.


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