US 12,103,549 B2
Method for operating a driver information system in an ego-vehicle and driver information system
Gordon Seitz, Ehra-Lessien (DE); Johanna Sandbrink, Braunschweig (DE); and Marie Puhle, Gifhorn (DE)
Assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/433,823
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/054299
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/173769, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 202 580.3 (DE), filed on Feb. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144296 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 35/29 (2024.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G06V 20/588 (2022.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 35/29 (2024.01); B60K 2360/166 (2024.01); B60K 2360/171 (2024.01); B60K 2360/172 (2024.01); B60K 2360/175 (2024.01); B60K 2360/1868 (2024.01); B60K 2360/1876 (2024.01); B60K 2360/191 (2024.01); B60K 2360/48 (2024.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 60/005 (2020.02); B60W 2530/203 (2020.02); B60W 2552/30 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for operating a driver information system in an ego vehicle; comprising:
determining an operating state of at least one lighting apparatus of the ego vehicle;
selectively determining one or more physical objects in the environment of the ego vehicle;
selectively determining an illumination of the one or more physical objects by the at least one lighting apparatus; and
generating and outputting a driver information display, the driver information display comprising a graphic ego object which represents the ego vehicle and one or more further graphical objects representing the one or more physical objects in the environment; wherein
the ego object comprises a rear depiction of the ego vehicle;
the ego object is generated depending on the detected operating state; and wherein
the one or more further graphical objects are generated depending on the determined illumination, so that an influence of the at least one lighting apparatus on an appearance of the one or more physical objects is reproduced in the driver information display.