Method and Device for Driver Support

• US 20080186154A1
• Filed: 08/19/2005
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Haug, Karsten
• Application Number:
  US11/664,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20080186154A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/435
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2220/02 Driver type; Driving style; Driver adaptive features
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/029 Steering assistants using warnings or proposing actions to the driver without influencing the steering system

Abstract

A method and a device for driver support are proposed in which the warning signal produced upon departure from the lane is dependent on the lane used and/or is dependent on the side at which the departure takes place and/or is dependent on the driver'"'"'s behavior.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for support of a driver of a vehicle, comprising:

producing a warning signal when the vehicle departs from a current lane or threatens to depart from the current lane;

wherein the producing of the warning signal is a function of at least one of;

i) a lane that the vehicle is using, ii) a side of the lane that the vehicle is using, and iii) a behavior or driving style of the driver.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

specifying a distance value, the warning signal being produced upon an exceeding of a specified distance value.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the distance value is one of geometrical or temporal.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the distance value is a lateral distance to a lane edge marking.

15. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the distance value is a time until crossing of a roadway edge marking.

16. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein a distance value is specified for at least one of:

i) each lane of a multi-lane roadway in one direction of travel, and ii) each lane edge (left, right).

17. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the distance value is specified as a function of a danger potential.

18. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the distance value is a function of a speed of the vehicle.

19. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the distance value is a driver-specific distance value, the driver-specific distance value being defined as a function of the driver'"'"'s behavior or driving style.

20. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the distance value is a driver-specific distance value, the driver-specific distance value being modified in the context of a learning process.

21. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the distance value is a driver-specific distance value, the driver-specific distance value being a function of at least one of a speed of the vehicle, and a duration of travel.

22. A device for support of a driver of a vehicle, comprising:

a processing unit that produces a warning signal when the vehicle one of;

i) departs from a lane, or ii) threatens to depart from a lane,

wherein the processing unit is adapted in such a way that the warning signal is produced as a function of the at least one of;

i) a lane being used, in the case of a multi-lane roadway in one direction, ii) a side of the lane, and iii) the driver'"'"'s behavior or driver'"'"'s driving style.