DRIVER ASSISTANCE SERVICE

• US 20130179077A1
• Filed: 01/04/2013
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: BRAEUCHLE, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 10,126,133 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/538
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered

Abstract

A method for providing a driver assistance service includes the steps of determining a first measured value for a first measured variable using a first measuring device, which is situated onboard a first motor vehicle, of transmitting the first measured value to a second motor vehicle and of providing the driver assistance service in the second motor vehicle based on the transmitted first measured value.

Claims

1. A method for providing a driver assistance service, comprising:

determining a first measured value for a first measured variable using a first measuring device, the first measuring device being situated onboard a first motor vehicle;

transmitting the first measured value to a second motor vehicle; and

providing the driver assistance service in the second motor vehicle based on the transmitted first measured value.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

determining a second measured value for a second measured variable using a second measuring device, the second measuring device being situated onboard the second motor vehicle, wherein the driver assistance service is provided based on the first and the second measured value.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the first and the second measured value refer to a same measured variable, and wherein the providing of the driver assistance service includes validating the first measured value and the second measured value against each other.

4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the first measured value and the second measured value relate to a same measured variable, and wherein the providing of the driver assistance system includes determining a combined measured value based on the first measured values and the second measured value, so that accuracy of the combined measured value is greater than an accuracy of the first measured value and the second measured value.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first measured variable is not ascertainable onboard the second motor vehicle for physical reasons.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a query for the first measured value by the second motor vehicle to the first motor vehicle prior to the transmitting of the first measured value.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first measured value is periodically output onboard the first motor vehicle in order to transmit the first measured value.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first measured value is emitted only if it is determined onboard the first motor vehicle that the first measured value is relevant onboard the second motor vehicle.

9. A computer readable storage medium storing program code for providing a driver assistance service, the program code, when executed by a processing device causes the processing device to perform the steps of:

determining a first measured value for a first measured variable using a first measuring device, the first measuring device being situated onboard a first motor vehicle;

transmitting the first measured value to a second motor vehicle; and

providing the driver assistance service in the second motor vehicle based on the transmitted first measured value.

10. A device for transmitting a measured value from a first motor vehicle, comprising:

a measuring device configured to determine a first measured value; and

a transmitting device configured to send the first measured value to a second motor vehicle.

11. A device for providing a driver assistance service onboard a second motor vehicle, comprising:

a receiving device configured to receive a first measured value that has been sent from a first motor vehicle; and

a processing device to provide the driver assistance service based on the received first measured value.