US 12,479,458 B2
Vehicle control system and method for outputting information related to a signaling unit
Bartono Adiprasito, Tiefenbach (DE); Helena Dolinaj, Munich (DE); Maximilian Guenther, Munich (DE); Frank Herchet, Neufahrn b. Freising (DE); Martin Jaensch, Munich (DE); Markus Kraemer, Dachau (DE); Julius Schulz, Munich (DE); and Muhammed Yildiz, Kirchseeon (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/031,181
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077589
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 11, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/078851, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 126 673.1 (DE), filed on Oct. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0382417 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/16 (2020.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 50/16 (2013.01) [B60W 30/143 (2013.01); B60W 30/18154 (2013.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle system for providing a driving function for automated longitudinal guidance of a vehicle at a signaling unit, comprising:
a processor of a vehicle guidance system configured to:
determine environmental data, captured by one or more environmental sensors of the vehicle, relating to an environment of the vehicle in front of the vehicle in a direction of travel;
detect, on the basis of the environmental data, a first signaling unit which is in front of the vehicle in the direction of travel on a road used by the vehicle;
determine distance information relating to a temporal and/or spatial distance of the vehicle from the first signaling unit; and
effect or suppress an output of information relating to the first signaling unit on the basis of the distance information;
wherein the processor of the vehicle guidance system is further configured to:
determine, on the basis of the distance information, whether:
(i) the temporal distance of the vehicle from the first signaling unit is less than or equal to a temporal distance threshold value; and
(ii) the spatial distance of the vehicle from the first signaling unit is less than or equal to a spatial distance threshold value; and
prevent an output of an unavailability output relating to the fact that the first signaling unit is not taken into consideration by the driving function during the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle when it is determined that:
(i) the temporal distance of the vehicle from the first signaling unit is less than or equal to the temporal distance threshold value; and
prevent the output of the unavailability output relating to the fact that the first signaling unit is not taken into consideration by the driving function during the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle when it is determined that:
(ii) the spatial distance of the vehicle from the first signaling unit is less than or equal to the spatial distance threshold value.