Control and Warning Device for a Lane Keeping System in Particular

• US 20090153313A1
• Filed: 09/06/2006
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Simon, Stephan, Roelke, Volker
• Application Number:
  US12/084,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20090153313A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/435
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/12 Lane keeping
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/04 Monitoring the functioning of the control system
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/16 Tactile feedback to the driver, e.g. vibration or force feedback to the driver on the steering wheel or the accelerator pedal
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/025 Active steering aids, e.g. helping the driver by actively influencing the steering system after environment evaluation B62D1/28 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/029 Steering assistants using warnings or proposing actions to the driver without influencing the steering system
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/167 Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection

Abstract

A control and warning device and method, in particular for a lane keeping system of a motor vehicle, includes a control unit, a warning unit, an activation unit, and a display unit. The control unit has a data and/or signal connection to the lane keeping system, a warning unit, an activation unit and a display unit. The control unit receives a signal about the prevailing activation state and/or availability state from the lane keeping system.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A control and warning device for a lane keeping system of a motor vehicle, comprising:

a control unit in data and/or signal connection with the lane keeping system, the control unit receiving a signal from the lane keeping system regarding a prevailing activation state and/or availability state.

15. The device according to claim 14, wherein the control unit activates the lane keeping system on the basis of a signal of an activation unit which is in data and/or signal connection to the control unit in an activatable state of the lane keeping system.

16. The device according to claim 14, wherein, in an inactivatable state of the lane keeping system, the control unit outputs a warning signal through a warning unit and/or for display by a display unit based on a signal of an activation unit, wherein at least one of the activation unit, the warning unit and the display unit are in data and/or signal connection with the control unit.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein the display unit displays the activation state and/or the availability or activatability state of the lane keeping system.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the warning unit outputs a warning signal and/or the display unit outputs a display when the lane keeping system switches in an activated state to an inactive, inactivatable state.

19. The device according to claim 16, wherein the warning unit outputs a warning signal and/or the display unit outputs a display when the lane keeping system in an activated state automatically switches to an inactive, activatable state.

20. The device according to claim 16, wherein the display unit includes means for visual and/or acoustic display.

21. The device according to claim 16, wherein warning unit includes means for visual and/or acoustic and/or haptic warning.

22. The device according to claim 16, wherein the activation unit includes means for manual and/or acoustic activation of the lane keeping system.

23. A method for controlling and warning, in cooperation with a lane keeping system, comprising:

using a control and warning device with a control unit, the control unit being in data and/or signal connection with the lane keeping system, the control unit receiving from the lane keeping system a signal indicating a prevailing activation state and/or availability state.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein in an inactivatable state of the lane keeping system the control unit outputs a signal for a warning by a warning unit and/or for display by a display unit on the basis of a signal of an activation unit, which is in data and/or signal connection with the control unit.

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein a display unit, which is in data and/or signal connection with the control unit, displays the activation state and/or the availability or the activatability state of the lane keeping system.

26. The method according to claim 23, wherein a warning unit, which is in data and/or signal connection with the control unit, outputs a warning signal and/or a display unit outputs a display when the lane keeping system switches from an activated state to an inactive inactivatable state.