Patents by Inventor David Kay Lambert
David Kay Lambert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230333373Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, STEVEN CRAIG BOWER
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Publication number: 20230296891Abstract: A head up display system presents a virtual image to a human driver of a motor vehicle. A plurality of light emitting devices are substantially aligned in a row and each emits light. There is a direct relationship between an electrical current drawn by each individual light emitting device and a distance each individual light emitting device is disposed from a center of the row. At least one mirror reflects the light emitted by the light emitting devices toward a windshield of the motor vehicle such that the light is reflected by the windshield and is visible to the human driver as the virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventor: DAVID KAY LAMBERT
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Patent number: 11726322Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
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Publication number: 20220413785Abstract: An infotainment system for a motor vehicle includes a display screen positioned to be visible by a passenger of the motor vehicle. A storage arrangement stores a collection of video segments to be presented on the display screen. The storage arrangement also stores metadata in association with the video segments. A user interface receives inputs from the passenger. A sensor detects a characteristic of the passenger. A processing arrangement is communicatively coupled to each of the display screen, the collection of video segments, the user interface and the sensor. The processing arrangement selects one of the video segments to present on the display screen. The selecting of the one video segment is dependent upon inputs received from the passenger via the user interface, signals received from the sensor indicative of the characteristic of the passenger, and metadata associated with individual segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, SACHIKO KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220244533Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, STEVEN CRAIG BOWER
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Publication number: 20220155605Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display producing a virtual image that is visible to a driver of the motor vehicle when he is sitting in a driver's seat and his eyes are above a first vertical level and below a second vertical level. An eye tracking system detects a vertical level of the eyes of the driver and transmits a height signal indicative of the detected vertical level of the eyes of the driver. A motorized seat height adjustment module adjusts a vertical level of the driver's seat. An electronic controller is communicatively coupled to the eye tracking system and to the motorized seat height adjustment module. The electronic controller controls the motorized seat height adjustment module based on the height signal to move the driver's eyes to a vertical position above the first vertical level and below the second vertical level.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, FIDELIS ITSEDE, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
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Patent number: 11333886Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company ot America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
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Publication number: 20220072998Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a rearview camera capturing images of a scene behind the motor vehicle. An electronic processor receives the images captured by the camera. A virtual image projection arrangement is communicatively coupled to the electronic processor and presents a virtual image dependent upon the images captured by the camera. The virtual image is visible by a driver of the vehicle after being reflected by a windshield.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: EDO OMANOVIC, DAVID KAY LAMBERT, WALTER JOSEPH NILL, GERALD ANTHONY TANG-KONG, PETER CLARENCE SOHLDEN
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Patent number: 11222476Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a source of a first video signal. A driver monitor system detects a location of at least a portion of a human driver of the motor vehicle. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the first video signal source and to the driver monitor system. The electronic processor produces a second video signal that is dependent upon the first video signal and that includes parallax information. The parallax information is based on the detected location of the portion of the driver. A head up display projection device produces a virtual image that is visible to the driver and that is based upon the second video signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Derek Louis Didier
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Patent number: 11215839Abstract: A head up display arrangement is for a motor vehicle having a human occupant. A light source emits a light field. An infrared camera detects infrared energy. A combiner is positioned and configured to reflect the light field such that the light field can be viewed by the human occupant as a virtual image. The combiner has a region configured to reflect infra-red energy emitted by a face of the occupant such that the infrared energy is received by the infrared camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Walter Joseph Nill
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Patent number: 11203295Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a rearview camera capturing images of a scene behind the motor vehicle. An electronic processor receives the images captured by the camera. A virtual image projection arrangement is communicatively coupled to the electronic processor and presents a virtual image dependent upon the images captured by the camera. The virtual image is visible by a driver of the vehicle after being reflected by a windshield.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Svstems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Edo Omanovic, David Kay Lambert, Walter Joseph Nill, Gerald Anthony Tang-Kong, Peter Clarence Sohlden
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Publication number: 20210223546Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, STEVEN CRAIG BOWER
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Publication number: 20210193086Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit emitting a light field including an image. A mirror is positioned to reflect the light field after the light field has been emitted by the picture generation unit. A windshield is positioned to reflect the light field after the light field has been reflected by the mirror such that a human driver sees the image in the light field after the light field has been reflected by the windshield, and such that the driver sees the image as a virtual image that appears to be outside of the windshield when eyes of the driver are in an imaginary eyebox. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the picture generation unit and translates the image on the picture generation unit display to thereby change a vertical level of the eyebox.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, DAMON EDWARD STAUFFER, FIDELIS ITSEDE, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
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Patent number: 10989917Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
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Publication number: 20210080735Abstract: A head up display arrangement is for a motor vehicle having a human occupant. A light source emits a light field. An infrared camera detects infrared energy. A combiner is positioned and configured to reflect the light field such that the light field can be viewed by the human occupant as a virtual image. The combiner has a region configured to reflect infra-red energy emitted by a face of the occupant such that the infrared energy is received by the infrared camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, WALTER JOSEPH NILL
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Patent number: 10884249Abstract: A head up display arrangement is for a motor vehicle having a human occupant. A light source emits a light field. An infrared camera detects infrared energy. A combiner is positioned and configured to reflect the light field such that the light field can be viewed by the human occupant as a virtual image. The combiner has a region configured to reflect infra-red energy emitted by a face of the occupant such that the infrared energy is received by the infrared camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Walter Joseph Nill
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Publication number: 20200388079Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a source of a first video signal. A driver monitor system detects a location of at least a portion of a human driver of the motor vehicle. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the first video signal source and to the driver monitor system. The electronic processor produces a second video signal that is dependent upon the first video signal and that includes parallax information. The parallax information is based on the detected location of the portion of the driver. A head up display projection device produces a virtual image that is visible to the driver and that is based upon the second video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, DEREK LOUIS DIDIER
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Patent number: 10732420Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a head up display projector producing a light field based upon image data such that the light field is reflected off of a windshield of the motor vehicle and is then visible to a driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image. First means determines locations of physical objects visible to the driver through the windshield. Second means determines locations of eyes of the driver. An electronic processor receives first data indicative of the determined locations of the physical objects, and receives second data indicative of the determined locations of the eyes of the driver. The electronic processor produces the image data dependent upon the first data and the second data such that a symbol in the virtual image appears to be in a predetermined position relative to a selected one of the physical objects.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Walter Joseph Nill
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Publication number: 20200124862Abstract: A head up display arrangement is for a motor vehicle having a human occupant. A light source emits a light field. An infrared camera detects infrared energy. A combiner is positioned and configured to reflect the light field such that the light field can be viewed by the human occupant as a virtual image. The combiner has a region configured to reflect infra-red energy emitted by a face of the occupant such that the infrared energy is received by the infrared camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, WALTER JOSEPH NILL
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Publication number: 20190391388Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, STEVEN CRAIG BOWER