US 12,576,785 B2Granted

Method for representing surroundings of a vehicle

AssigneeAudi AG

InventorsSebastien Ambrosetti, Sabrina Roters, Lydia Schindhelm, Rebekka Neumann, Tobias Hopf, Timo Schaschek, Benjamin Berndt, Alexander Khlebnikov

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Abstract

An approach is described for representing surroundings of a vehicle, the vehicle being in a specific driving situation, on at least one display panel of the vehicle, wherein the surroundings are captured by at least one exterior camera of the vehicle, wherein a check is made to establish whether or not at least one object in the captured surroundings is relevant to the specific driving situation, wherein at least one object which is relevant to the specific driving situation is classified as at least one primary object and at least one object which is irrelevant to the specific driving situation is classified as at least one secondary object, wherein the display panel is divided into at least one primary zone for the at least one primary object and at least one secondary zone for the at least one secondary object, wherein the at least one primary zone is depicted in real form and the at least one secondary zone is depicted in modified form by means of the at least one display panel.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A method for depicting surroundings of a vehicle, on at least one display panel of the vehicle, the vehicle being in a specific driving situation, the method comprising:

capturing the surroundings of the vehicle by at least one exterior camera of the vehicle;
checking to establish whether or not at least one object in the surroundings of the vehicle is relevant to the specific driving situation;
classifying the at least one object that is relevant to the specific driving situation as at least one primary object;
classifying the at least one object that is irrelevant to the specific driving situation, as at least one secondary object;
displaying the at least one primary object in at least one primary zone of the display panel, wherein the at least one primary zone is depicted in a real form;
displaying the at least one secondary object in at least one secondary zone of the display panel, wherein the at least one secondary zone is depicted in a modified form;
predicting a trajectory of the vehicle in the specific driving situation and predicting a movement of the at least one object based on analyzing the surroundings of the vehicle;
and
comparing the predicted movement of the at least one object to the trajectory of the vehicle, wherein the at least one object located on the trajectory of the vehicle is characterized as the at least one primary object, and wherein the at least one object located next to the trajectory of the vehicle is characterized as the at least one secondary object.

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A display system for depicting surroundings of a vehicle in a specific driving situation, the display system comprising:

at least one display panel of the vehicle;
at least one exterior camera of the vehicle configured to capture the surroundings of the vehicle;
and
at least one computing unit configured to:
check to establish whether or not at least one object in the surroundings of the vehicle is relevant to the specific driving situation;
classify the at least one object that is relevant to the specific driving situation as at least one primary object;
classify the at least one object that is irrelevant to the specific driving situation, as at least one secondary object;
display the at least one primary object in at least one primary zone of the display panel, wherein the at least one primary zone is depicted in a real form;
and
display the at least one secondary object in at least one secondary zone of the display panel, wherein the at least one secondary zone is depicted in a modified form;
predict a trajectory of the vehicle in the specific driving situation and predict a movement of the at least one object based on analyzing the surroundings of the vehicle;
and
compare the predicted movement of the at least one object to the trajectory of the vehicle, wherein the at least one object located on the trajectory of the vehicle is characterized as the at least one primary object, and wherein the at least one object located next to the trajectory of the vehicle is characterized as the at least one secondary object.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/841,261Filed 1 Feb 2023
Priority: DE 10 2022 105 187.04 Mar 2022
Published: US 2025/0162505 A122 May 2025
Granted: 17 Mar 2026
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Classification16 codes

B60R 1/27
With a predetermined field of view: providing all-round vision, e.g. using omnidirectional cameras
G06T 11/00
Two-dimensional [2d] image generation
G06F 3/147
Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units: using display panels
G06T 7/20
Image analysis: analysis of motion