US 11,790,615 B2
Marking objects for a vehicle using a virtual element
Alexander Kunze, Berlin (DE); Matthias Schacht, Braunschweig (DE); Eduard Seib, Wolfsburg (DE); and Johanna Sandbrink, Braunschweig (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/535,414.
Claims priority of application No. 102020214843.0 (DE), filed on Nov. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0165039 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60K 2370/166 (2019.05); B60K 2370/31 (2019.05); B60K 2370/52 (2019.05)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for representing at least one virtual element in a display area of at least one display device of a vehicle, comprising:
activating a three-dimensional space in the display area of the display device;
based on at least one data source, determining three-dimensional coordinates in the three-dimensional space for a location of at least one virtual element relative to at least one first vehicle partially entering the display area;
transforming the at least one virtual element as a two-dimensional depiction at the three-dimensional coordinate of the three-dimensional space;
further transforming the at least one virtual element as a different two-dimensional depiction for marking the at least one first vehicle when it entirely enters the display area of the display device, wherein the first vehicle is marked if a predefined speed gradient between the vehicle and the first vehicle is exceeded or is not reached, and wherein the first vehicle is marked only if a predefined difference of the speed gradient between the vehicle and the first vehicle is registered.