Image through the windshield showing a traffic situation. A head-up display shows a wide variety of traffic information projected onto the surroundings. HUD ARCreator projects essential driving information directly onto the windshield into the driver’s line of sight, ensuring drivers keep their eyes on the road.

Visual driver assist functions

Making the invisible visible.

Driving demands clarity, confidence, and safety.

  

With our innovative HUD ARCreator, Video AR, and Virtual 3D Environment View software solutions, we deliver advanced visual driver assist functions transforming complex traffic situations into intuitive, easy-to-understand visuals right in the driver’s line of sight where it matters most. Our solutions help drivers stay informed, reduce stress, and maintain full awareness of their surroundings—even when critical details are hard to see. Hence, »making the invisible visible«.

HUD ARCreator

Augmented reality for safer driving.

The  HUD ARCreator  projects essential driving information directly onto the windshield into the driver’s line of sight, ensuring drivers keep their eyes on the road. By combining head-up display (HUD) technology with augmented reality (AR), ARCreator delivers real-time, context-aware guidance such as  

  

  • Adaptive cruise control
  • Distance to vehicle ahead
  • Forward collision and blind spot warnings
  • Lane departure warnings
  • Navigation cues projected onto the road (3rd-party navigation required)
  • Object detection and road sign recognition
  • Current speed display
Image through the windshield showing a traffic situation. A head-up display shows a wide variety of traffic information projected onto the surroundings. HUD ARCreator projects essential driving information directly onto the windshield into the driver’s line of sight, ensuring drivers keep their eyes on the road.
Augmentation graphics such as lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, navigation information, and object (pedestrian) detection, mirrored into the windshield right in the driver’s line of sight.

AUMOVIO’s ARCreator can be used with dual-plane, varifocal, and 3D AR HUD systems alike and includes a number of unique AUMOVIO innovations such as

  

  • Perspective correction, ensuring AR graphics remain perfectly aligned with real-world objects
  • Car motion compensation, an AUMOVIO-patented technology that stabilizes the vertical position of the displayed AR content when the car, for example, drives through a pothole or over a bump,
  • Warping algorithm, guaranteeing undistorted visuals on curved windshields

  

The ARCreator also encompasses ARStudio,a powerful software development tool for recording and replaying videos plus all relevant vehicle signals during test drives, for creating an OEM-specific look & feel by rendering customized 3D assets, all with a plug-in architecture to support a seamless HUD integration.

Warping

Perfect visual alignment on curved surfaces.

Projecting graphics onto a curved windshield without correction leads to visible distortion—straight lines appear bent, and circles become ovals. Due to the complex curvature of a car’s windscreen, this cannot be fully resolved through optics alone.

  

AUMOVIO’s Warping Algorithm used in the ARCreator, but also available as a stand-alone solution, solves this challenge with a proprietary warping algorithm. The algorithm pre-distorts the image before projection so that, when mirrored onto the curved surface, the augmentation graphics appear perfectly undistorted to the driver. Straight lines remain straight, and circles retain their true shape—ensuring a natural, accurate visual experience.
Image of a grid pattern on the windshield showing warping in head-up displays. AUMOVIO’s Warping Algorithm used in the ARCreator, but also available as a stand-alone solution, solves this challenge with a proprietary warping algorithm. The algorithm pre-distorts the image before projection so that, when mirrored onto the curved surface, the augmentation graphics appear perfectly undistorted to the driver.

Video AR

Augmentation without HUD hardware.

With the VideoAR solution, AUMOVIO also offers a solution for when no HUD is available in the vehicle.

  

Video AR displays a wide horizontal-view video on the center display, based on a live camera feed from the front-facing camera, and superimposes the augmentation information on top of this video image.

  

So, Video AR is a viable alternative when an actual AR HUD is, for various reasons, not an option.
The image shows a traffic situation around a vehicle, displayed on a screen in the dashboard inside the vehicle. With the VideoAR solution, AUMOVIO also offers a solution for when no HUD is available in the vehicle. Video AR displays a wide horizontal-view video on the center display, based on a live camera feed from the front-facing camera, and superimposes the augmentation information on top of this video image.

Virtual 3D Environment View

Intuitive traffic visualization.

AUMOVIO’s Virtual 3D Environment View provides a high-definition rendering of the surrounding traffic environment, including other vehicles around the driver’s own car (so-called »ego car«), using sensor fusion (camera, radar, GPS) and HD maps, supporting the driver with a good overview in complex driving situations.

  

Highlights:

  

  • Realistic 3D models of vehicles and road users
  • Visualization of the ego car’s active lights such as low beam, high beam, blinkers, rear light, brake light
  • Traffic-light status representation in 3D
  • Adjustable perspective of the virtual camera »capturing« the 3D scene
  • OEM-specific look & feel customization  
Picture of Virtual 3D Environment View, showing other road users, roads with lane markings, and buildings around the current position, displayed in 3D models.
Virtual 3D Environment View showing other road users, roads with lane markings, and buildings around the current position
Image of Virtual 3D Environment View's comparison of real-life situation and 3D environment model
Comparison of real-life situation and 3D environment model
Image of a range of supported generic vehicle types for Virtual 3D environment view; more 3D models to be introduced soon
Range of supported generic vehicle types; more 3D models to be introduced soon

Why visual driver assist functions from AUMOVIO?

  • Safety first
    Designed to reduce driver workload and prevent accidents
    • Scalable integration
      Flexible architecture for OEM-specific requirements
      • Future-ready
        Supporting 3D HUDs, camera-based augmentation, and immersive 3D visualization

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