Method and device for operating a parked motor vehicle

• US 10,558,210 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2017
• Issued: 02/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Nordbruch, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Goldman, Richard A
• Application Number:
  US15/850,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20180196423A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 71 4, 71 70, 71 93
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/00 Purposes of road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a particular sub-unit, e.g. of systems using conjoint control of vehicle sub-units
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0022 characterised by the communication link data switching networks in general H04L12/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0038 by providing the operator with simple or augmented images from one or more cameras located onboard the vehicle, e.g. tele-operation images analyzed by a computer and used for automatic navigation G05D1/0246
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/59 inside of a vehicle, e.g. relating to seat occupancy, driver state or inner lighting conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

A method for operating a parked motor vehicle, including the following steps: monitoring a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and/or surroundings of the motor vehicle with the aid of one or multiple motor vehicle-internal sensor(s); transmitting monitoring data which are based on the monitoring via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal; in response to a receipt of a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or multiple component(s) of the motor vehicle, controlling the one or the multiple component(s) of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or the multiple motor vehicle component(s) being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components: a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, a motor vehicle-internal sensor. A corresponding device, a motor vehicle, and a computer program, are also described.

Claims

1. A method for operating a parked motor vehicle, comprising:

monitoring, with the aid of one or multiple motor vehicle-internal sensors, at least one of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and surroundings of the motor vehicle;

transmitting monitoring data which are based on the monitoring via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal; and

in response to a receipt of a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or more components of the motor vehicle, controlling the one or more components of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or more motor vehicle components being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components;

a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, and a motor vehicle-internal sensor;

wherein the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors include a video camera so that the monitoring data include video images of the video camera, the controlling including a controlling of the video camera, the controlling of the video camera including one or more of the following steps;

changing a focal length of a lens of the video camera, panning the video camera, rotating the video camera, moving the video camera, changing an exposure time of the video camera, and, changing a diaphragm of the video camera.

2. A method for operating a parked motor vehicle, comprising:

monitoring, with the aid of one or multiple motor vehicle-internal sensors, at least one of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and surroundings of the motor vehicle;

transmitting monitoring data which are based on the monitoring via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal; and

in response to a receipt of a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or more components of the motor vehicle, controlling the one or more components of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or more motor vehicle components being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components;

a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, and a motor vehicle-internal sensor;

wherein a distance between the parked motor vehicle and the mobile terminal is ascertained, the ascertained distance being compared to a predefined distance threshold value, the monitoring data being transmitted to the mobile terminal only when the ascertained distance is smaller than or equal to the predefined distance threshold value.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the one or more components of the motor vehicle components includes a drive engine of the motor vehicle, and the controlling include a starting of the drive engine.

4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors includes a respective element selected from the following group of sensors:

a motor vehicle passenger compartment video camera, a motor vehicle outside video camera, a radar sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, a LIDAR sensor, a door sensor, a trunk lid sensor, a motion sensor, an infrared sensor, a magnetic sensor, a motor vehicle seat sensor, and a steering wheel sensor.

5. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein at least one of the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors is a freely arranged sensor, so that the freely arranged sensor is not fixedly installed in the motor vehicle.

6. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the monitoring data are stored on the mobile terminal.

7. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors include a video camera so that the monitoring data include video images of the video camera, the controlling including a controlling of the video camera, the controlling of the video camera including one or more of the following steps:

changing a focal length of a lens of the video camera, panning the video camera, rotating the video camera, and moving the video camera.

8. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors include:

a radar sensor and/or a Lidar sensor and/or an ultrasonic sensor.

9. A device for operating a parked motor vehicle, comprising:

a communication interface for transmitting monitoring data via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal, the monitoring data being based on a monitoring with the aid of a motor vehicle-internal monitoring unit for monitoring at least one of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle, and surroundings of the motor vehicle, the monitoring unit including one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors, the communication interface being designed to receive a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or more components of the motor vehicle; and

a control unit, which is designed, in response to a receipt of the control command transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, to control the one or more components of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or more motor vehicle components being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components;

a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, and a motor vehicle-internal sensor;

wherein a distance between the parked motor vehicle and the mobile terminal is ascertained, the ascertained distance being compared to a predefined distance threshold value, the monitoring data being transmitted to the mobile terminal only when the ascertained distance is smaller than or equal to the predefined distance threshold value.

10. A motor vehicle, including the device for operating a parked motor vehicle, the device comprising:

a communication interface for transmitting monitoring data via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal, the monitoring data being based on a monitoring with the aid of a motor vehicle-internal monitoring unit for monitoring at least one of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle, and surroundings of the motor vehicle, the monitoring unit including one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors, the communication interface being designed to receive a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or more components of the motor vehicle; and

a control unit, which is designed, in response to a receipt of the control command transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, to control the one or more components of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or more motor vehicle components being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components;

a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, and a motor vehicle-internal sensor;

wherein a distance between the parked motor vehicle and the mobile terminal is ascertained, the ascertained distance being compared to a predefined distance threshold value, the monitoring data being transmitted to the mobile terminal only when the ascertained distance is smaller than or equal to the predefined distance threshold value.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program including program code for operating a parked motor vehicle, the computer program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform:

monitoring, with the aid of one or multiple motor vehicle-internal sensors, at least one of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and surroundings of the motor vehicle;

transmitting monitoring data which are based on the monitoring via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal; and

in response to a receipt of a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or more components of the motor vehicle, controlling the one or more components of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or more motor vehicle components being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components;

a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, and a motor vehicle-internal sensor;

wherein a distance between the parked motor vehicle and the mobile terminal is ascertained, the ascertained distance being compared to a predefined distance threshold value, the monitoring data being transmitted to the mobile terminal only when the ascertained distance is smaller than or equal to the predefined distance threshold value.

12. A method for operating a parked motor vehicle, comprising:

ascertaining a distance between the motor vehicle and a mobile terminal;

comparing the ascertained distance to a predefined distance threshold value;

only when the ascertained distance is smaller than or equal to the predefined distance threshold, starting a monitoring, with the aid of one or multiple motor vehicle-internal sensors, of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and/or surroundings of the motor vehicle;

transmitting monitoring data which are based on the started monitoring via a wireless communication network to a mobile terminal; and

in response to a receipt of a control command, transmitted from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network, for controlling one or more components of the motor vehicle, controlling the one or more components of the motor vehicle as a function of the control command, the one or more motor vehicle components being selected from the following group of motor vehicle components;

a motor vehicle lighting system, a motor vehicle horn, and a motor vehicle-internal sensor.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, further comprising:

receiving, from the mobile terminal, position data of the mobile terminal;

wherein in the ascertaining step, the distance between the motor vehicle and the mobile terminal are ascertained based on the received position data.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the position data is received from the mobile terminal via the wireless communication network.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the position data is GPS position data.

16. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors include a video camera so that the monitoring data include video images of the video camera, the controlling including a controlling of the video camera, the controlling of the video camera including one or more of the following steps:

changing a focal length of a lens of the video camera, panning the video camera, rotating the video camera, and moving the video camera.

17. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the one or more motor vehicle-internal sensors include:

a radar sensor and/or a Lidar sensor and/or an ultrasonic sensor.