METHOD FOR OPERATING A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

• US 20150191084A1
• Filed: 07/04/2013
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Fuehrer, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/414,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20150191084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/16 Type of output information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/16 Type of information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/186 Displaying Information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/043 Identity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/00 Input parameters relating to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/406 Traffic density
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2555/20 Ambient conditions, e.g. wind or rain
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/12 Lane keeping
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/17 with provision for special action when the preceding vehicle comes to a halt, e.g. stop and go
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 60/0013 : specially adapted for occupant comfort

Abstract

A method for operating a driver assistance system for a vehicle, the driver assistance system including a congestion assistant for guiding the vehicle during a traffic jam; and an operating state of the congestion assistant being recorded; information linked to the surroundings of the vehicle being provided as a function of the recorded operating state of the congestion assistant. In particular, additional information is provided if the congestion assistant is guiding the vehicle. The driver is then able to direct his attention away from the traffic and to this information, without danger. Further described is a corresponding driver assistance system and computer program.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method for operating a driver assistance system for a vehicle, the method comprising:

guiding the vehicle during a traffic jam with the aid of a congestion assistant of the driver assistance system; and

recording an operating state of the congestion assistant; and

providing information linked to the surroundings of the vehicle being as a function of the recorded operating state of the congestion assistant.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information is provided if the operating state is an active operating state, in which the congestion assistant guides the vehicle at least partially autonomously.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the information includes one of the following information types:

geographic information, historical information, cultural information, social information, political information, and commercial information.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the information is selected as a function of a parameter from at least one of the following:

a duration of the traffic jam in time, a length of the traffic jam, the length of stay in the traffic jam, a distance and/or a driving time to an exit point, a distance and/or a driving time to a parking place, a destination position of a current route of the vehicle, a destination position of a route of the vehicle older in time, and a prospective range of the vehicle and weather parameters.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the identity of a passenger of the vehicle is recorded, and the information is selected from a quantity of data as a function of person-related data of the identified passenger of the vehicle.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the information is solicited from a cloud server.

15. A driver assistance system for a vehicle, comprising:

a congestion assistant for guiding the vehicle during a traffic jam;

a providing device for providing information that is linked to the surroundings of the vehicle; and

a control device for controlling the providing device as a function of an operating state of the congestion assistant.

16. A computer readable medium having a computer program, which is executable by a processor, comprising:

a program code arrangement having program code for operating a driver assistance system for a vehicle, by performing the following;

guiding the vehicle during a traffic jam with the aid of a congestion assistant of the driver assistance system; and

recording an operating state of the congestion assistant; and

providing information linked to the surroundings of the vehicle being as a function of the recorded operating state of the congestion assistant.