Method for operating a communication device for a motor vehicle during an autonomous drive mode, communication device as well as motor vehicle

• US 9,987,927 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2016
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Bonhoure, Patrick, Kuoch, Siav Kuong, Hottelart, Katharina
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): POINT, RUFUS C
• Application Number:
  US15/557,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20180056787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/175 Autonomous driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/566 Mobile devices displaying vehicle information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• 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 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a communication device (2) for a motor vehicle (1), in which operating data of at least one operating component (4) of the motor vehicle (1) is provided by means of an interface device (3) of the motor vehicle (1) and transmitted to a mobile apparatus (8) disposed in an interior (10) of the motor vehicle (1), and the operating data is displayed on a display device (11) of the mobile apparatus (8), wherein it is examined by means of the interface device (3) if the motor vehicle (1) is operated in an autonomous drive mode, and if the motor vehicle (1) is operated in the autonomous drive mode, the mobile apparatus (8) is operated in a first operating mode, wherein the operating data is displayed on the display device (11) only in the first operating mode.

Claims

1. A method for operating a communication device for a motor vehicle, comprising:

providing operating data of at least one operating component of the motor vehicle by an interface device of the motor vehicle;

transmitting the operating data to a mobile apparatus disposed in an interior of the motor vehicle; and

displaying the operating data on a display device of the mobile apparatus,

wherein the interface device examines whether the motor vehicle is operated in an autonomous drive mode, and when the motor vehicle is operated in the autonomous drive mode, the mobile apparatus is operated in a first operating mode, wherein the operating data is displayed on the display device only in the first operating mode while a first area of the display device is predetermined by the mobile apparatus and the operating data is displayed on the first, predetermined area,

wherein the operating data presented on the display device describes the autonomous drive mode of the motor vehicle, and

wherein, on a second area of the display device different from the first area, data is displayed, which is provided by an operating system of the mobile apparatus.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein upon a transition from a manual drive mode to the autonomous drive mode, a control signal is transmitted from the interface device to the mobile apparatus and the mobile apparatus is operated in the first operating mode after receiving the control signal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein an image sequence captured by at least one camera of the motor vehicle, which describes at least one region of an environment of the motor vehicle, is provided by the interface device and displayed by the display device as the operating data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein navigation data of a navigation system of the motor vehicle is provided by the interface device and displayed by means of the display device as the operating data.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the operating data is transmitted from the interface device to the mobile apparatus in wired or wireless manner.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first operating mode is terminated upon a transition from the autonomous drive mode to a manual drive mode and the mobile apparatus is operated in a second operating mode.

7. A communication device for a motor vehicle, which is configured to perform a method according to claim 1.

8. A motor vehicle with a communication device according to claim 7.