| dc.description.abstract | Lighting has played a significant role on driving safety. However, incorrect direction of the illumination becomes harmful as the high intensity light shine right into drivers’ eyes. During dawn or dusk, the glare from the sun may cause drivers encounter traffic accidents because the angle between the sun and horizon is too small. Drivers can wear sunglasses, photochromic glasses, polarizing shades, or certain glass filter to solve these issues, yet these solutions darken their whole vision, which may lead them to have difficulties to see the road clearly.
The conventional product, electronic sunglasses, overcomes the disadvantages that previously mentioned. Lenses of the sunglasses are made of transparent LCD. With an external mini sensor, it tracks the glare and then displays a mask, corresponding to the area of the glare based on users’ vision. Since the location of the transparent LCD and the source of glare are not on the same focal plane, the edge of the mask is still blurry while sometimes is unable to cover the area of glare accurately. Thus, the proposed system utilizes the optical architecture of augmented reality to combine both the background glare and the transparent LCD plane. With the additional embedded system, the source of glare can be detected by using the binary image technic on the CMOS sensor captured images. The contrast of users’ vision between the source of glare and the background image is then reduced as a result of the mask dynamically produced by the transparent LCD.
See-through Integral Imaging System not only enhances the application on driving safety, but benefits players in several kind of sports games as well. During baseball games, fielders no longer miss fly balls because of the sun glare as well as players miss forward passes from the quarterback during rugby games. | en_US |