Method and apparatus for displaying manoeuvre-related assistive lines in a display of a vehicle

A method for displaying maneuver-related assistive lines in a display of a vehicle, the method comprising the following steps:

• producing a camera image using a camera arranged on the vehicle, wherein:
• the camera image captures both an environment of the vehicle and a collision-related part of the vehicle, and
• the collision-related part of the vehicle is a constituent part of a body of the vehicle and/or an add-on part of the vehicle, which, during a driving maneuver in a direction of a field of view of the camera, is highly likely to be first to come into contact with objects foreign to the vehicle;
• ascertaining an outer contour of the collision-related part of the vehicle, wherein the outer contour of the collision-related part of the vehicle is:
• a line at which the collision-related part of the body of the vehicle that is visible in the camera image adjoins a part of the camera image that represents the environment of the vehicle,
• ascertained based on a predefined geometric model of the vehicle and/or based on an image recognition method using the camera image;
• and
• displaying the camera image in the display of the vehicle, wherein the camera image is overlaid with at least one assistive line, provided for a maneuvering operation, which extends from the outer contour of the collision-related part of the vehicle into the environment of the vehicle, wherein:
• the at least one assistive line is sharply cropped by the outer contour of the collision-related part such that the at least one assistive line exactly follows a course of the outer contour at a cropped edge, and
• a transparency of the at least one assistive line is increased in a direction of the outer contour and/or a brightness of the at least one assistive line is reduced in a direction of the outer contour.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a camera;
• a display;
• and
• an evaluation unit, wherein the evaluation unit is configured to execute a method for displaying maneuver-related assistive lines in the display of a vehicle, the method including the following steps:
• producing a camera image using the camera arranged on the vehicle, wherein:
• the camera image captures both an environment of the vehicle and a collision-related part of the vehicle, and
• the collision-related part of the vehicle is a constituent part of a body of the vehicle and/or an add-on part of the vehicle, which, during a driving maneuver in a direction of a field of view of the camera, is highly likely to be first to come into contact with objects foreign to the vehicle,
• ascertaining an outer contour of the collision-related part of the vehicle, wherein the outer contour of the collision-related part of the vehicle is:
• a line at which the collision-related part of the body of the vehicle that is visible in the camera image adjoins a part of the camera image that represents the environment of the vehicle,
• ascertained based on a predefined geometric model of the vehicle and/or based on an image recognition method using the camera image, and
• displaying the camera image in the display of the vehicle, wherein the camera image is overlaid with at least one assistive line, provided for a maneuvering operation, which extends from the outer contour of the collision-related part of the vehicle into the environment of the vehicle, wherein:
• the at least one assistive line is sharply cropped by the outer contour of the collision-related part such that the at least one assistive line exactly follows a course of the outer contour at a cropped edge, and
• a transparency of the at least one assistive line is increased in a direction of the outer contour and/or a brightness of the at least one assistive line is reduced in a direction of the outer contour.