Robert Boschgmbh

Andreas Engelsberg

Holger Kussmann

Sven Bauer

Michael Wollborn

Peter Knoll

Lars Placke

Dietrich Manstetten

Bernd Schmale

Marc Stoerzel

Ulrich Schweiger

Werner Poechmueller

Wei-Chia Lee

Peter Vogel

Torsten Mlasko

Gerrit De Boer

Michael Laedke

Bettina Rentel

Lutz Bersiner

Fanny Kobiela

Christian Mittendorf

Mario Mueller-Frahm

Guido Stuebner

Thorsten Mausbach

Holger Modler

Andre Kroehnert

Stephan Eisenlauer

Torsten Prange

Jens Rainer Ohm

Yiwen Yang

Sven Mecke

Andre Mengel

Moez Selem

A method for determining a range of a vehicle, the vehicle having an electric motor to supply driving power and/or to recuperate braking energy, and a weight of the vehicle is determined on the basis of an acceleration and/or recuperation behavior as a function of a torque and/or a rotational speed of the electric motor, the range of the vehicle being determined on the basis of the ascertained vehicle weight.

Method and device for determining a range of a vehicle

A method for displaying a warning message in a first vehicle, includes transmitting from a second vehicle a warning and position data relating to a position of the second vehicle to the first vehicle, wherein if, after reception of the warning and of the position data by the first vehicle, it is concluded on the basis of the received position data that the second vehicle can be seen by a driver of the first vehicle in a region of a head-up display of the first vehicle, the warning message is displayed in such a way that the second vehicle is characterized visually for the driver of the first vehicle in the head-up display of the first vehicle.

Method for displaying a warning message in a vehicle

A method for determining a parking spot including at least the following steps: measuring a parking spot and outputting a measured length of the parking spot; comparing the determined length to at least one limiting value and determining an indicator signal; outputting the indicator signal to the driver; recording vehicle dynamics signals, during a parking operation; evaluating the parking operation on the basis of the recorded vehicle dynamics signals and outputting an evaluation signal, and changing the at least one limiting value as a function of the evaluation signal and the indicator signal. An adaptive parking spot measurement is created in which an evaluation of the parking spot length is automatically adapted to the driving behavior and the driving skills of the respective driver, resulting in a particularly high degree of acceptance of the PSM system by the driver.

Method for determining a parking spot

A driver warning device which serves to warn the driver when a safety-critical condition of the vehicle is reached. A warning is issued only if such issuance is to take place in accordance with a user profile. This avoids unnecessary warnings from being issued to a driver, which could reduce the acceptance of the warning system on the part of the driver.

Driver warning device

An entertainment device has a control element with which a user may have equivalent data searched for and then played back by the entertainment device. The data currently being played back are examined for characteristic features, so that the search for equivalent data is then possible using these features. In particular, the actuation of the control element may be used to modify a user profile. In addition, it is possible for the data currently being played back to be stored in the entertainment device when the control element is actuated.

Entertainment device

For the coding or decoding of speech signal sampled values, the values contained in the code books/code tables for the generation of the speech signal parameters are stored in quantized form. The processing can be carried out using processors with whole-number processing, without deterioration of the speech quality.

Quantizing speech signal codewords to reduce memory requirements

For the description of audio-visual data content in a multimedia environment, a binary representation of description structures is used. A binary identifier (BID) for each specified descriptor (D) and description scheme (DS) as well as a binary description definition language (DDL) represent the components. The advantages of a binary representation are a more compact encoding of description structures and thus savings in storage capacity and/or bandwidth. A faster parsing of the encoded data, especially in the context of dynamically varying descriptions, is thereby achieved.

Method for description of audio-visual data content in a multimedia environment

A device and a method for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence, which are specially used to compensate for a camera movement. A plurality of image regions of the images is available for determining the displacement, each image region being provided at a preselected position of the images, each image region having preselected dimensions, in particular, a predetermined number of pixels in various directions of the image, and an image movement mainly caused by a camera movement being separated from an additional movement that is superimposed on the image movement in a subregion of the image to be corrected, by calculating the probability of the movement occurring without the additional movement is calculated at different positions of an image, specifying and fixing for each image region, the position and the dimensions as a function of the probability of the image movement occurring inside the one image region without the additional movement, and preferentially using at least one image region out of the plurality of image regions for determining the displacement.

Method and device for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence

An assistance device in a vehicle is described. The assistance device may be used to create a user profile for a driver and to call up the user profile to perform the settings on the various components. The assistance device may include a computer, which may be connected to means for person recognition. Connected data sources, means for representation, means for data reception, an air conditioning system, and a control system for person-specific variable components of the vehicle may be adjusted according to the user profile of the respective driver. The computer may as an alternative be connected to other components over a bus. The user profile may be altered according to a user's most recent settings.

Assistance device in a motor vehicle

For upgrading a data stream of multimedia data, which comprises features with textual description, a set of phonetic translation hints is included in the data stream, which specifies the phonetic transcription of parts or words of the textual description. The phonetic transcriptions need not be repeated for each occurrence of a word. This reduces the amount of data necessary for storing or transmitting the description text.

Method of upgrading a data stream of multimedia data

A method and a device for determining an image shift in an image sequence may be used, for example, to compensate for a camera movement or other image source movement. A plurality of image zones of images are available to determine the shift, with the zone shift of any given image zone from a plurality of image zones being determined from the image data of, for example, consecutive images within any given image zone. A block matching method or a method using block shift information from a block-based coding method is used to determine the zone shift and to determine a reliability for the zone shift determination.

Method and device for determining an image shift in an image sequence

A navigation method for a motor vehicle is described, the purpose of which is to display an arrow as a directional symbol on a windshield as a function of signals from a viewing direction recognition device, with the directional information being determined by a navigation device When approaching a turn-off to be selected, the arrow moves in the direction of the turn-off. In addition, the arrow becomes shorter and/or changes color and/or its flashing frequency. A rotation of the arrow on the windshield as a function of the stipulated route is also possible. The projection apparatus, to which the navigation device is connected, has means for placing the arrow in the field of vision of the driver.

Windshield display for a navigation system

A device for presenting data in a vehicle as a function of the direction of view of the driver. The device includes a computing device, arrangements for the optical and/or acoustical presentation, an arrangement for the recognition of the driver's direction of view and various data sources. The arrangement for the recognition of the driver's direction of view transmits to computing device the measured direction of view of the driver, so that computing device transmits this direction of view to arrangements for the optical and/or acoustical presentation, so that the presentation of data from the various data sources is made visible in the driver's field of view. This may lead to increased safety in street traffic, since distraction of the driver by the various data of the data sources is greatly reduced.

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Hildesheim, Germany

Andreas Engelsberg