US 12,434,626 B2
Driver assistance system and method for outputting expanded warning information in the vehicle
Boris Israel, Munich (DE); Felix Lauber, Munich (DE); Desiree Meyer, Stockdorf (DE); and Frederik Platten, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/273,649
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 13, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/050644
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 21, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/174997, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 104 080.9 (DE), filed on Feb. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0300412 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60K 35/23 (2024.01); B60Q 3/74 (2017.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01)
CPC B60Q 9/00 (2013.01) [B60K 35/23 (2024.01); B60Q 3/74 (2017.02); G06V 20/597 (2022.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driver-assistance system for outputting situation-contingent, expanded warning information in a vehicle, comprising:
a registration unit configured to register an output of warning information in an information-output unit in the vehicle;
a sensor configured to ascertain a degree of attentiveness of a driver of the vehicle; and
an electronic control unit configured to control an output in the vehicle such that, where a low degree of attentiveness of the driver has been ascertained, the output provides an expanded output of warning information in the vehicle, wherein
the sensor comprises a passenger-compartment camera,
the degree of attentiveness of the driver by the passenger-compartment camera is ascertained based on a direction of view of the driver,
the low degree of attentiveness of the driver is ascertained based on a direction of view of the driver turned away from the information-output unit,
the output comprises a passenger-compartment light of the vehicle,
the electronic control unit is further configured to control the passenger-compartment light of the vehicle to provide an expanded output of warning information in a direction of view of the driver and ascertained by the passenger-compartment camera, and
the expanded output of warning information corresponds to an output characteristic corresponding to the output of warning information registered by the registration unit.