US 12,007,765 B2
Method for assisting a user in the remote control of a motor vehicle, computer program product, remote-control device and driver assistance system for a motor vehicle
Johannes Petzold, Kronach Neuses (DE); Joerg Schrepfer, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE); and Stefan Milz, Kronach Neuses (DE)
Assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/311,185
Filed by Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/082007
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/114785, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 131 104.4 (DE), filed on Dec. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0035368 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); B60K 35/22 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 35/80 (2024.01)
CPC G05D 1/0038 (2013.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0044 (2013.01); B60K 35/22 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 35/80 (2024.01); B60K 2360/1523 (2024.01); B60K 2360/176 (2024.01); B60K 2360/55 (2024.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for assisting a user in the remote control of a motor vehicle by a remote-control device, comprising:
receiving, by the remote-control device from the user in proximity of the remote-control device and remote from the motor vehicle, a user input that specifies a point in a three-dimensional (3D) vehicle model of the motor vehicle, wherein the point in the 3D vehicle model corresponds to an interior location within the motor vehicle;
depending on sensor data provided by at least one environment sensor of the motor vehicle, providing a first surroundings image of at least one part of the surroundings of the motor vehicle viewed from the interior location of the motor vehicle as a determined perspective, wherein the determined perspective is represented by using the point in the 3D vehicle model as a virtual viewpoint, wherein the first surroundings image comprises the sensor data and an interior portion of the 3D vehicle model;
displaying, while the remote-control device and the user are remote from the motor vehicle, the first surroundings image by the remote-control device to be viewed by the user as if the user is at the interior location within the motor vehicle; and
selecting the determined perspective from a plurality of selectable perspectives as a perspective that is independent of a position of the at least one environment sensor, depending on the user input effected by the user and detected by the remote-control device,
wherein the remote control of the motor vehicle is carried out independently of a distance between the remote-control device and the motor vehicle.