Car tech including 3D dashboard and an invisible hood

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(6 Jan 2020) LEAD IN: • German automotive technology company Continental is unveiling three advanced technologies at at CES in Las Vegas. • The technologies include a 3D dashboard screen, an invisible hood and a sound system that vibrates, eliminating the conventional need for speakers. • • STORY-LINE: • An invisible car bonnet? German car technology company, Continental, is unveiling a new technology likened to the Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak. • The Transparent Hood is created by placing cameras on the hood of a car so the view appears to be see-through explains Dirk Abendroth, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Continental Automotive. • By displaying the area underneath the vehicle, the driver is given the ability to see obstacles and terrain that would otherwise be obstructed. • It's just existing technology in terms of cameras, standard cameras. But we provide a certain view on the hood, which provides us the virtual transparent view through the hood. How is that working? That's magic, isn't it? We just take desynchronized views of different cameras, to the sides and from the front. And just connect them earlier pictures of the front camera and combine it with a side camera of now. So it's a kind mixed picture, you see. And the result is: you see transparent hoods. For especially for off-road riding etc., for capability, you can use. But the magic thing is, of course, you can use it for different applications as well. And to some degree, to me, it feels like a little bit like Harry Potter's Magic Cloak. Where can simply make everything transparent, he explains. • Next to be revealed is a 3D dashboard that could turn a car into a conference room called 3D Lightfield Centerstack. • Werner Koestler, Head of Strategy and Business Development Vehicle Networking and Information Business Area at Continental explains: • The next area that I want to bring to your attention is the 3D Lightfield Centerstack. This is a continuous evolution of our cockpit and HMI (Human-Computer Interaction) experience. And we teamed up here with a Silicon Valley startup, Leia, and they have this technology already introduced to the consumer market. There are mobile phones out, where you have this technology and we are the pathway to bring this now into the automotive field and if adopted that to the Centerstack that display can emit the Lightfield to give this 3D impression to the viewer, to the passenger, to the driver, he says. • This 3-D impression that you see that enables new opportunities for the Human Machine Interface. It offers new opportunities, how you present things, you can capture faster content. And that opens a completely new way how to see things. And you can experience that at our booths at the Renaissance Hotel. And we have here a demonstrator up and running. • And it may not be too long until audio speakers are no longer needed in cars. • Alongside German audio company Sennheiser, Continental unveils their new product Ac2acted Sound. • Although in the experimental stages, this new sensor system will use acoustic vibrations turning your car's surfaces into an instrument. • And finally Ac2acted Sound. That's the technology that is looked for from all the car manufacturers, to replace audio loudspeakers in the car by vibrating surfaces to save between 70 and 90 per cent on the packaging size. So the packaging is a very important topic, but you're also save on the weight of the equipment that is in the car because we use already existing parts to emit the sound, explains Koestler. • The show floor opens Tuesday through to Friday. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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