Patent · US Expired

Automobile infrared night vision device and automobile display

US7130486B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

Helmuth Eggers · Ulm, DE
Gerhard Kurz · Calw, DE
Juergen Seekircher · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
Thomas Wohlgemuth · Neckartenzlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 28, 2003
Grant date	Oct 31, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 21, 2025

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N23/70
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns an automobile display unit, an automobile infrared night vision device and an automobile with such a display unit or, as the case may be, with such an infrared night vision device. The display includes an image processing unit which processes the image data supplied to it such that contiguous areas of maximal light intensity are recognized and these image data are adapted to the extent that they are at least partially replaced by image data with reduced light intensity values. These changed image data are supplied to the display, which reproduces these image data. This display unit makes possible a reduction or a prevention of blinding by brilliant light, which is particularly disturbing in a case of display of infrared night vision image information.

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