Active eye-glasses with local dimming

The sense of sight provides the most reliable information about the environment. Although the human eye has a wide dynamic range for brightness adaptation, direct exposure to relatively bright light sources wipes out the total visual perception. The most remarkable example of this situation is driving a car at night, while the other cars are coming from the opposite lane with headlights on. In this work, we have proposed and developed a set of LCD equipped active glasses to solve this light adaptation problem. First, the location of the light sources are determined using an on board camera which is assembled in front of the glasses. After processing image data, the locations of the bright light sources are darkened and the disturbing effect of intense light sources is reduced.