Virtual lane lines for connected vehicles

• US 10,595,176 B1
• Filed: 09/19/2018
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Denso International America Incorporated (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Denso International America Incorporated (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Gallagher, Brian C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trieu, Van T
• Application Number:
  US16/135,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20200086790A1
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/00 Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/24 in front of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/305 merging camera image with lines or icons
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/804 for lane monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8053 for bad weather conditions or night vision
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/02 Control of position or course in two dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096708 where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/165 for passive traffic, e.g. including static obstacles, trees
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/167 Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

A vehicle system, comprising a vehicle transceiver located in the host vehicle configured to receive data indicative of a driving path of one or more remote vehicles, a processor in communication with the vehicle transceiver and programmed to output graphical images indicative of lane markers on a road to the display utilizing at least the driving path data, and a display configured to display the graphical images.

Claims

1. A vehicle system in a host vehicle, comprising:

a first sensor configured to detect a location of one or more objects outside of the host vehicle;

a vehicle transceiver located in the host vehicle and configured to communicate with one or more remote vehicles and receive data indicative of a historic driving path of the one or more remote vehicles from a vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure transceiver;

a processor in communication with the first sensor and the vehicle transceiver and programmed to output graphical images indicative of lane markers on a road utilizing the data indicative of the historic driving path of one or more remote vehicles and indicative of the location of the one or more objects outside of the host vehicle; and

a display in communication with the processor and configured to display the graphical images.

2. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to output the graphical images indicative of lane markers on a road in response to activation of a user-interface command.

3. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to output graphical images indicative of cross-path vehicles utilizing at least data received from the first sensor.

4. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to output graphical images indicative of oncoming vehicles utilizing at least data received from the first sensor.

5. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to output graphical images indicative of same-path vehicles utilizing at least data received from the first sensor.

6. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to output the graphical images in response to data indicative of a hazardous driving condition, wherein the data indicative of the hazardous driving condition is not from a radar sensor or camera.

7. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the graphical images indicative of lane markers on the road are not generated from a map database.

8. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the display includes a heads-up display (HUD) or an instrument panel display.

9. A vehicle system, comprising:

a vehicle transceiver located in a host vehicle configured to receive data indicative of a historic driving path of one or more remote vehicles from a vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure transceiver;

a processor in communication with the vehicle transceiver and programmed to output graphical images indicative of lane markers on a road to a display utilizing at least the historic driving path data; and

the display configured to display the graphical images.

10. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to output graphical images indicative of on-coming vehicles to the display in response to activation of a user-interface command, wherein the graphical images utilize at least the historic driving path data.

11. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to output graphical images indicative of cross-path vehicles to the display utilizing at least the historic driving path data.

12. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to output graphical images indicative of same-path vehicles to the display utilizing at least the historic driving path data.

13. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the vehicle transceiver is further configured to send data indicative of a host vehicle driving path to the one or more remote vehicles.

14. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to output to the display graphical images indicative of lane markers on the road in response to data indicative of a hazardous driving condition.

15. The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the data indicative of the hazardous driving condition includes at least windshield sensor data.

16. The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the data indicative of the hazardous driving condition includes at least weather data.

17. The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the data indicative of the hazardous driving condition includes data generated by a fog-detection sensor of the vehicle.

18. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to output to the display the graphical images indicative of lane markers on the road in response to activation of an interface of the vehicle system.

19. The vehicle system of claim 9, wherein the display includes a heads-up display (HUD) or an instrument panel display.

20. A method of outputting graphical images with a vehicle system, comprising:

receiving, from one or more remote vehicles via a vehicle transceiver, data indicative of a driven path by the one or more remote vehicles from a vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure transceiver;

generating, utilizing a processor, graphical images indicative of lane markers on a road utilizing the data indicative of a driven path by the one or more remote vehicles; and

displaying the graphical images indicative of lane markers on the road on one or more displays of the vehicle system.