Apparatus and method for processing windshield to be invisible
Inventive concepts are configured to protect a passenger by processing an area in a windshield, which matches to a position of a spot on a road, wherein the spot is defined as desirable to not be seen by the passenger when a vehicle is travelling. To this end, the area in the windshield, which matches to a spot on an actual road defined in advance as desirable to not be seen by the passenger, is processed as an invisible area for passenger protection so that the passenger is prevented from visually recognizing the spot. However, when road information required for driving of the vehicle is occluded due to the invisible area which is processed or displayed on the windshield, safe driving is significantly disrupted so that actual road information is overlaid on the invisible area.
1. An apparatus for a windshield, comprising:
an invisible area display circuit configured to display an invisible area within a windshield that matches to a spot on a road defined in advance to not be seen by a passenger;
a road information display circuit configured to overlay and display road information in the invisible area displayed on the windshield by the invisible area display circuit;
a first invisible area moving circuit configured to move a display position of the invisible area in the windshield according to a moving of a vehicle;
a second invisible area moving circuit configured to recognize a driver's gaze and an accompanying passenger's gaze and move a display position of the invisible area in the windshield with respect to each of the driver's gaze and the accompanying passenger's gaze; and
wherein the second invisible area moving circuit separately derives the invisible area as an invisible area of the driver and an invisible area of the accompanying passenger different from the invisible area of the driver according to the recognition results of the driver's gaze and the accompanying passenger's gaze.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the invisible area display circuit and the road information display circuit display the invisible area and the road information on a transparent display device included in the windshield.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the invisible area display circuit and the road information display circuit display the invisible area and the road information on an electrochromic film included in the windshield.
4. An apparatus for a windshield, comprising:
a road surface information acquisition circuit configured to acquire road surface information;
an invisibility processing target extraction circuit configured to extract a spot on a road, which is defined in advance to not be seen by a passenger, from the acquired road surface information;
an invisible area calculation and location mapping circuit configured to calculate an invisible area occupied by the extracted invisibility processing target in the windshield and map the invisible area to derive a display position of the invisible area in the windshield;
an invisible area display circuit configured to display the invisible area in an area mapped to a location in the windshield;
a road information extraction circuit configured to extract road information, which is present an area corresponding to the invisibility processing target, from the acquired road surface information; and
a road information display circuit configured to overlay and display the extracted road information in the invisible area displayed in the windshield; and
a driver and passenger invisible area deriving circuit configured to recognize a driver's gaze and a passenger's gaze and configured to separately derive the invisible area as an invisible area of the driver and an invisible area of the passenger different from the invisible area of the driver according to the recognition results of the driver's gaze and the passenger's gaze.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 , further comprising an invisible area changing circuit configured to recalculate the display position of the invisible area mapped by the invisible area calculation and location mapping circuit with respect to an invisibility processing target area extracted by the invisibility processing target extraction circuit and re-map the display position of the invisible area to the area in the windshield, thereby changing the display position of the invisible area.
6. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the road surface information acquisition circuit acquires the road surface information using an external camera of a vehicle.
7. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the invisible area display circuit and the road information display circuit display the invisible area and the road information on a transparent display device included in the windshield.
8. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the invisible area display circuit and the road information display circuit display the invisible area and the road information on an electrochromic film included in the windshield.
9. A method comprising:
displaying an invisible area in an area within a windshield that matches to a spot on a road defined in advance to not be seen by a passenger;
overlaying and displaying road information in the invisible area displayed on the windshield in the displaying of the invisible area;
recognize a driver's gaze and a passenger's gaze; and
separately deriving the invisible area as an invisible area of the driver and an invisible area of the passenger different from the invisible area of the driver according to the recognition results of the driver's gaze and the passenger's gaze.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein, in the displaying of the invisible area and the displaying of the road information, the invisible area and the road information are displayed on a transparent display device included in the windshield.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein, in the displaying of the invisible area and the displaying of the road information, the invisible area and the road information are displayed on an electrochromic film included in the windshield.
12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising moving a display position of the invisible area in the windshield according to driving of a vehicle.
13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising recognizing the driver's gaze and the passenger's gaze and moving a display position of the invisible area in the windshield with respect to each of the driver's gaze and the passenger's gaze.