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Where I drive (upstate New York), there’s a significant danger of deadly collisions with deer, which overpopulate the area. They’re especially difficult to detect (until it’s too late) at night.
Those infra-red (or whatever they are) glasses used in the movies, and by the military? Use the technology
in windshields for avoidance of warm-blooded creatures crossing the road. I imagine seeing, around the bend, color-outlined deer-shapes, allowing the driver to adjust speed and heading until the danger is passed.
Precise implementation of this technology is not known to me. Anybody else?
(?) Autoliv's heads-up infrared for cars
http://www.autoliv....61ba87?OpenDocument
Not quite what you describe, but close. Those clever Swedes... [Dog Ed]
Nightvision onboard the Cadillac DeVille.
http://www.gm.com/c...s/night_vision.html
The Cadillac DeVille has had the option of adding Night Vision since the 2000 model year. [Dog Ed, Aug 17 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Nightvision onboard the Cadillac DeVille.
http://www.gm.com/c...s/night_vision.html
The Cadillac DeVille has had the option of adding Night Vision since the 2000 model year. [Nzorn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) DIY version
http://www.flir.com...0D9D6/lang=EN/ln=c5
08 Feb 03 | Mount one of these on your car. [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Automotive Night Vision
http://en.wikipedia...motive_night_vision
Summary of the technology to date. [jurist, Mar 12 2010]
[link]
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Night Vision technology has already been implemented by GM. Since the 2000 model year the Cadillac DeVille has had the option of adding a Night Vision system. The system uses an advanced infrared camera and a HUD (head-up display). Unfortunately It's only available in the DeVille and Being a Cadillac it doesn't come cheep(Over $50k). For more information see the [link]. |
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you could buy night vision goggles, and bolt them to the front of a helmet? |
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the bike helmet visor will be much easier than the windshield, because of how the information is displayed. |
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You are trying to display an overlay, which must be lined up in-between the viewer and the object with reasonable accuracy. If it is only a highlight/outline then total accuracy is less important than if you were trying to provide full vision without blurring/doubling what is already able to be seen. A highlight would probably be a basic rectangle, identified as moving differently thant he rest of the picture be a real-time computer image analysis. It sounds complicated, and it is, but that part of it is already kinda baked. just look up "paintball turret" on youtube. |
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for the highlight, a display algorithm based on the assumption of where the average driver's head would be located, with at most a height adjustment would suffice. For the full image it would need to actively track where the driver's eyeballs are located. |
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The bike visor you could get away with something much simpler, basically traditional night vision goggles in a better package. Some inexpensive ones came with the game Modern Warfare 2 but the low res might not be suitable for biking above a certain speed, def not safe for car speeds. But they would be a good starting point to try it out. |
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sai, this is more of an ideas website than a "please help me
wid my project" sort of a site, though it's an interesting idea
and perhaps you should post it independently here? |
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Also, just a heads-up, people here tend to be a bit pedantic
about grammar and language, if u c what I mean. |
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How about a system that reads the infrared images, and then spotlights the objects of interest? |
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//... I want to "implement" this idea and not leave it as an idea alone//
Pssst - it's already been done. |
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and why would you put quotes around "implement" if you just mean "implement" ? |
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