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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2025
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Ercan M. Dede, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Sean P. Rodrigues, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Paul Donald Schmalenberg, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for displaying an image of an obstructed blind spot on a pillar of a vehicle. The system includes an internal camera and an external camera. The system also includes a projector configured to beam light in the form of an image onto the pillar, and an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to determine, from the internal camera, the position of a head or an eye of a driver, cause adjustment of the external camera to capture images of an area of a blind spot of the driver, receive, from the external camera, images depicting the area of the blind spot, apply a transformation of the plurality of images to generate a transformed image of the blind spot, and control the projector to emit light in the form of the transformed image towards the pillar to display the transformed image onto the pillar.
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