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Method and apparatus for generating image effects in the interior or outside of a vehicle

US11347184B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

Christian Studeny · Braunschweig, DE
Nils Pfullmann · Hannover, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	May 31, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 16, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03H2223/24
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and an illumination arrangement for generating image effects in the interior of a motor vehicle or also outside the motor vehicle. To use existing installation space as efficiently as possible, light is radiated, in the form of at least a first optical reference wave field, onto a irradiation surface that is arranged laterally on an optical image storage device. In the optical image storage, which contains a holographic layer or a diffractive optical layer, the optical reference wave field is transformed into at least a first image wave field and is emitted on an emission side, at a first angular offset with respect to the irradiation surface.

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