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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
May. 08, 2023
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Benjamin Piya Austin, Saline, MI (US);
John K. Lenneman, Okemos, MI (US);
George M. Evans, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Takeshi Yoshida, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
William Patrick Garrett, Plymouth, MI (US);
Rebecca L Kirschweng, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Embodiments herein are directed to a transparent steering wheel system for a vehicle that includes a sensor system, a projection system, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine when a plurality of display data displayed on a display device behind a steering wheel is blocked by the steering wheel from a field of view of a driver, determine when a desirable notification is included in the plurality of display data, and when the desirable notification is included and the field of view of the desirable notification for the driver is blocked by the steering wheel, control the projection system to project the desirable notification onto the projection surface of the steering wheel that fully covers the steering wheel such that the steering wheel appears to be transparent when the desirable notification is displayed onto the projection surface.