DISPLAY OF A RELEVANT TRAFFIC SIGN OR A RELEVANT TRAFFIC INSTALLATION

• US 20090312888A1
• Filed: 12/10/2008
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Richter, Bernd, SICKERT, Stefan, Schick, Jens
• Application Number:
  US12/331,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20090312888A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09623 Systems involving the acquisition of information from passive traffic signs by means mounted on the vehicle G08G1/0967 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element

Abstract

In a method for displaying information in a vehicle: a region of the surroundings of the vehicle is captured optically via at least one image capture device; the captured image data are transmitted to a control and analysis unit, which analyzes the captured image data for the presence of traffic signs or traffic installations; and information is displayed on a display unit in the vehicle if the captured image data following analysis on the part of the control and analysis unit contain at least one traffic sign and/or at least one traffic installation. The control and analysis unit is supplied with route information about the current or planned route of the vehicle, information adapted to the current or planned route of the vehicle being displayed if for different route options different traffic signs and/or different traffic installations are detected.

Claims

1. A method for displaying information in a vehicle, comprising:

optically capturing a region of surroundings of the vehicle via at least one image capture device;

transmitting captured image data to a control and analysis unit;

analyzing, by the control and analysis unit, the captured image data for presence of at least one of (a) traffic signs and (b) traffic installations;

displaying information on a display unit in the vehicle if the captured image data, following the analysis, includes at least one of (a) at least one traffic sign and (b) at least one traffic installation;

supplying the control and analysis unit with route information about at least one of (a) a current and (b) a planned route of the vehicle; and

displaying information adapted to at least one of (a) the current and (b) the planned route of the vehicle if, for different route options, at least one of (a) different traffic signs and (b) different traffic installations, are detected.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein solely the information that concerns at least one of (a) the current and (b) the planned route of the vehicle is displayed.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein information is displayed if the captured image data following the analysis includes at least one traffic installation in the form of at least one of (a) a light signal system and (b) an alternating light signal system.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein a current switching state of an alternating light signal system is ascertained by the control and analysis unit and at least one of (a) corresponding information and (b) symbols are displayed.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein a current traffic light signal applicable to at least one of (a) the current and (b) planned route of the vehicle is signaled to a driver in at least one of (a) a visually-, (b) an acoustically-, and (c) a haptically-perceptible manner.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displayed information includes a detail of the captured image data.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control and analysis unit is supplied with route information about at least one of (a) the current and (b) the planned route of the vehicle transmitted by a navigation system.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control and analysis unit is supplied with route information about at least one of (a) the current and (b) the planned route of the vehicle transmitted by a lane detection system.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control and analysis unit is supplied with route information about at least one of (a) the current and (b) the planned route of the vehicle, which detect an activation of a direction indicator.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is displayed when the vehicle is at a standstill.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the system is adapted to perform the method according to claim 1.

11. A system for displaying information in a vehicle, comprising:

at least one image capture device;

a display unit;

a control and analysis unit connected to the image capture device and the display unit;

at least one of (a) an information device and (b) an information system connected to the control and analysis unit and adapted to supply the control and analysis unit with route information about at least one of (a) a current and (b) a planned route of the vehicle such that, when detecting at least one of (a) different traffic signs and (b) different traffic installations for different route options, information is displayable on the display unit that is adapted to at least one of (a) the current and (b) the planned route of the vehicle.