Visual driver assist functions

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«.

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
  

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.

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.

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