US 12,304,513 B2
Method, device, computer program and computer program product for operating a driver assistance function of a vehicle
Dominik Bauch, Muehldorf am Inn (DE); Marco Baumgartl, Gilching (DE); Michael Himmelsbach, Munich (DE); Josef Mehringer, Gmund (DE); Daniel Meissner, Friedberg (DE); and Luca Trentinaglia, Eichenau (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/428,861
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079226
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/160799, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 102 924.4 (DE), filed on Feb. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0089171 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/082 (2013.01) [B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0095 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); B60W 2540/30 (2013.01); B60W 2552/00 (2020.02); B60W 2554/00 (2020.02); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a driver assistance function of a vehicle by a control device, comprising the steps of:
determining a position of the vehicle by a system of the vehicle;
providing map data of a road map by a navigation device of the vehicle or by a service provider or a server;
providing current and historical traffic data to the vehicle from the service provider or the server depending on the position;
providing historical personal user data depending on the position that is stored in the vehicle or is provided to the vehicle by the service provider or the server, wherein the historical personal user data includes whether a driver assistance function in the vehicle was activated or deactivated at the position and wherein the historical personal user data includes how good a quality of an activated driver assistance function was at the position where the driver assistance function evaluates its quality based on a quality and availability of sensors and environmental data on which it depends;
providing a list of driver assistance functions stored in the vehicle by the control device;
determining whether a situation exists in which a driver assistance function of the list of driver assistance functions can be used depending on the position, the map data, the current and historical traffic data, and the historical personal user data by the control device;
if it is determined that the situation exists, providing information to a driver of the vehicle by the control device to set the driver assistance function; and
activating the driver assistance function by the driver with a click or a gesture or a voice command or ignoring the provided information by the driver.