Vehicles have blind spots, i.e. areas around the vehicle that cannot be directly observed by the driver while at the controls. Blind spots are a cause of accidents. A recent technical solution to blind spots is to mount a camera that takes footage of the blind spots (e.g. caused by the A-pillar), and then show the live video on the blocking surface (e.g. display attached on the A-piliar) inside the car. The problem with that solution is that the field of view changes with the driver's viewing angle. The driver could change his head position (small movements while driving), or a driver could change his scat position (more structural bigger moves). The viewing angle problem also holds for the passenger, assuming there is a secondary video playback (e.g., micro lenses). We propose a blind-spot projector with active angle correction. A camera or several cameras are positioned outside the car to record a live video footage or playback of an area around the vehicle that catinot be directly observed by the driver while at the controls. Instead the driver can sec the footage on a display which is arranged on the blocking surface (i.e. on the A-pillar) inside the car. We propose to augment the playback by an active measurement to measure the driver's position and an image processing system to process the video images using data recorded by the active measurement.
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