# US 10,768,005 B2 · System and method for navigating a vehicle, and vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,768,005 B2 - Document ID: US10768005B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/131,765 - Filed: 2018-09-14 - Published: 2019-01-10 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-16 - Assignees: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft - Applicants: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft - Inventors: Marcello Tava - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10768005B2 ## CPC - G01C 21/3492: {employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical (traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968)} - G01C 21/3461: {Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types or segments such as motorways, toll roads or ferries} - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G08G 1/0112: {from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]} - G08G 1/0141: {for traffic information dissemination} - G08G 1/096827: {where the route is computed onboard} - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) ## Abstract A system and method for navigating a vehicle includes a management unit (server) arranged outside of the vehicle for centrally storing traffic information and traffic rules relating to vehicle information. The traffic rules relate, for example, to road closures and restrictions based on vehicle type. A detection unit has an interface for detecting vehicle information of the vehicle, such as at least one vehicle identification number, and is designed to transmit the detected vehicle information of the vehicle to the managing unit. A computing module generates navigation information based on traffic rules stored on the managing unit and vehicle information. The generated navigation information is output in the vehicle by a navigation unit (client). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for navigating a vehicle, comprising: a management unit arranged outside the vehicle, the management unit being configured to centrally store vehicle information of the vehicle and traffic rules relevant to the vehicle; a capture unit having an interface configured to capture the vehicle information of the vehicle including at least one vehicle identification number, the capture unit being further configured to send the captured vehicle information of the vehicle to the management unit; a computation module configured to generate navigation information based on the stored traffic rules determined by the management unit to be relevant to the vehicle based on the captured vehicle information of the vehicle stored at the management unit; and a navigation unit arranged in the vehicle configured to output the navigation information generated by the computation module. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the navigation unit includes an interface configured to capture and store the vehicle identification number. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 2, wherein the navigation unit is configured to communicate via a communication link with the management unit and transmit at least the stored vehicle identification number for the vehicle to the management unit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 3, wherein the management unit includes the computation module, and the navigation unit is configured to receive the navigation information computed by the computation module. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 3, wherein the navigation unit includes the computation module, and the navigation unit is configured to receive the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle stored by the management unit. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the capture unit is configured to capture a vehicle registration number as the vehicle identification number or to capture a vehicle registration number as vehicle information other than the vehicle identification number. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 6, wherein the capture unit is configured to capture at least one engine specification as at least a part of the vehicle information other than the vehicle identification number. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 7, wherein an interface of the capture unit is configured as an input mask of an Internet portal. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The system for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the capture unit is part of the navigation unit. ### Claim 10 A method for navigating a vehicle, comprising the acts of: capturing vehicle information of the vehicle with a capture unit; sending the captured vehicle information of the vehicle to a management unit containing stored traffic rules relevant to the vehicle; storing the captured vehicle information of the vehicle on the management unit; generating navigation information with a computation module based on the stored traffic rules determined by the management unit to be relevant to the vehicle based on the vehicle information of the vehicle sent to the management unit; and outputting the navigation information generated by the computation module by a navigation unit in the vehicle. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 10, wherein the vehicle information includes a vehicle identification number. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The method for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 11, wherein the management unit includes the computation module, the navigation unit in the vehicle sends to the management unit a request signal to generate and send the navigation information based on the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle and the vehicle information of the vehicle, in response to the request signal, the computation module generates the navigation information based on the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle and the vehicle information of the vehicle, and the management unit sends the navigation information generated by the computation module to the navigation unit. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 12, wherein the navigation unit sends an identification number of the vehicle with the request signal, the management unit identifies the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle on the basis of the vehicle identification number and sends the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle to the computation unit, and the management unit sends the generated navigation information to the navigation unit. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein current traffic rules relevant to the vehicle are at least one of stored and updated on the management unit. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The method for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 11, wherein the navigation unit includes the computation module, the navigation unit in the vehicle sends to the management unit a request signal for the management unit to send the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle stored on the management unit to the navigation unit, in response to the request signal, the management unit sends the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle to the navigation unit, and the computation module of the navigation unit generates the navigation information based on the received traffic rules relevant to the vehicle and the vehicle information of the vehicle. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method for navigating a vehicle as claimed in claim 15, wherein the navigation unit sends an identification number of the vehicle with the request signal, the management unit identifies the traffic rules relevant to the vehicle on the basis of the vehicle identification number, and the management unit sends said traffic rules relevant to the vehicle to the navigation unit. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein current traffic rules relevant to the vehicle are at least one of stored and updated on the management unit. ### Claim 18 A vehicle, comprising a system for navigation, the navigation system including a management unit arranged outside the vehicle, the management unit being configured to centrally store vehicle information of the vehicle and traffic rules relevant to the vehicle; a capture unit having an interface configured to capture the vehicle information of the vehicle including at least one vehicle identification number, the capture unit being further configured to send the captured vehicle information of the vehicle to the management unit; a computation module configured to generate navigation information based on the stored traffic rules determined by the management unit to be relevant to the vehicle based on the captured vehicle information of the vehicle stored at the management unit; and a navigation unit arranged in the vehicle configured to output the navigation information generated by the computation module.