US 12,066,294 B2
Apparatus, method and computer program for a vehicle
Alaa Mourad, Munich (DE); Alexander Krebs, Munich (DE); and Markus Strassberger, Wartenberg (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/781,347
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/076479
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 31, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/151527, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20154958 (EP), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412754 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3438 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to:
obtain identification information on a future passenger of the vehicle, the identification information comprising an ultra-wideband communication identification of a mobile device of the future passenger;
locate the future passenger outside the vehicle using ultra-wideband communication, the ultra-wideband communication being performed between an ultra-wideband transceiver of the vehicle and the mobile device of the future passenger and being based on the ultra-wideband communication identification of the mobile device;
compute guidance information based on the location of the future passenger of the vehicle; and
provide the guidance information via an interface;
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive image data of the future passenger from the mobile device of the passenger via a short-range communication transceiver of the vehicle; and
wherein the processing circuit is further configured to:
use the determined location of the future passenger to point a camera sensor; and
obtain further image data from a camera sensor of the vehicle based on the determined location of the future passenger;
compare the further image data to the received image data.