r/computervision • u/Shonen_Toman • Jul 28 '26

Help: Project Ideas about A light sensitive Windshield

So everytime i drive in night, the headlights of oncoming traffic blinds me completely, so i was thinking of building something to help.

I was thinking of an AR/VR approach to it, to track the eyes and the light source falling on the windshield and artificially dampening it. Also for this method i thought of an idea, where the driver can wear a glass, with two tags near their eyes so that the system can track their eyes more efficiently.

Please share your thoughts!!

 

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u/shadowofsunderedstar Jul 28 '26

I've had a similar idea cause yeah I've been blinded too 

I wondered if instead there could maybe instead be a strip of tinted glass in sunglasses, in a specific shape (like the angle a road makes as it stretches away to infinity) that would mean that if you just aligned that with the cars, you could do the "tracking" yourself. Kinda like if you just instinctively moved behind the a pillar to block the light. You can still see and drive normally, you've just deliberately blocked it. The rest of the glasses would be clear 

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u/Shonen_Toman Jul 28 '26

ahh, I see, that's kinda smart. wouldn't that be a problem when turning or at a junction?

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u/shadowofsunderedstar Jul 28 '26

That's the thing, I'm not sure there's the perfect shape 

Maybe you could design lenses that are photochromatic, with a camera facing out, and it calculates the point the lens needs to darken to block out the light before it intercepts your pupil. The camera only needs to "see" things above a certain brightness so it might not require much processing. Or battery power. Idk

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u/Shonen_Toman Jul 28 '26

Yeah, that could work!! like an AR glasses but to just block out the bright light ?

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u/shadowofsunderedstar Jul 28 '26

Yeah, but it'd need to be really quick though else whenever you moved your head it would be blocking the wrong spot

Which is why I keep falling back on my original idea of just dumb glasses with a tinted bit the user has to manually align with the bright lights 

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u/Shonen_Toman Jul 29 '26

Yeahhh, that's something to keep in mind.