US 12,441,309 B2
Method and driver assistance device for assistance in the performance of a return driving maneuver
Andreas Boesl, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/898,845.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2023 126 551.2 (DE), filed on Sep. 28, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0108798 A1, Apr. 3, 2025
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/10 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/10 (2013.01) [B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driver assistance device for assistance in performance of a return driving maneuver of a motor vehicle based on a corresponding recorded outward driving maneuver, wherein the driver assistance device is configured to:
detect that the motor vehicle has been operated at least partially manually by a driver along an actually driven trajectory that started on a return driving maneuver driving trajectory and has deviated from the return driving maneuver driving trajectory and that the motor vehicle has become arranged at a first surrounding position in surroundings of the return driving maneuver driving trajectory, wherein a distance of the first surrounding position from the return driving maneuver driving trajectory is greater than a first distance threshold value;
determine that the motor vehicle is returnable in an automated manner on a return trajectory from the first surrounding position to an intermediate position on the return driving maneuver driving trajectory;
output an offer for an automated performance of the return driving maneuver at the first surrounding position in response to determining that the motor vehicle is returnable from the first surrounding position in the automated manner on the return driving maneuver driving trajectory;
detect a user input indicating an acceptance of the offer; and
responsively perform automated lateral guidance of the motor vehicle along the return trajectory to an intermediate position on the return driving maneuver driving trajectory, and continue to perform automated lateral guidance of the motor vehicle along the return driving maneuver driving trajectory from the intermediate position.