Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh

Becker Gmbh

Silicon Systems Gmbh Multimedia Engineering

Hans-Peter Mauderer

Andreas Stiegler

Herbert Hetzel

Patrick Heck

Klaus Hübner

Klaus Huebner

Matthias Winkelmann

Methods and devices are disclosed for assisting a driver of a first vehicle where a second vehicle is detected by a sensor of the first vehicle and a driver of the first vehicle is informed that the second vehicle is at the side of the first vehicle when the second vehicle leaves an area monitored by the sensor, the area monitored by the sensor being an area behind the first vehicle.

Blind area warning for vehicles

A system for detection of braking of a vehicle may include a device provided in a first vehicle. The device may be in communication with a detector mounted to the first vehicle to monitor an area in front of the first vehicle. The detector may detect light emitted by the rear lights of a second vehicle when the second vehicle is ahead of the first vehicle in the monitored area. The device may acquire data from the detector and analyze the acquired data in order to detect an optical signal emitted by the rear lights of the second vehicle. The optical signal may encode information indicative of a braking procedure being performed by the second vehicle. The device may evaluate the detected optical signal in order to derive the information indicative of the braking procedure of the second vehicle.

System for vehicle braking detection

A motor vehicle virtual vanity mirror display system includes an a input device that provides a virtual vanity mirror control signal, and a camera that is adapted to capture an image of an occupant sitting on a seat of the vehicle in response to the virtual vanity mirror control signal. An image processing unit receives the image and processes the image to provide a processed image, and a display receives and displays the processed image to the occupant, in the absence of a vehicle mounted vanity mirror.

Method for presenting an image in a vehicle

A method for common transmission of digital source and control data between data sources and sinks being connected through data lines, includes transmitting the source and control data in a format specifying a clocked sequence of individual bit groups of equal length. In these bit groups, certain bit positions are each reserved for the source and control data and the bit positions reserved for the source data form a cohesive region within one bit group. The region of a bit group reserved for the source data is subdivided into a plurality of partial bit groups of equal length. The source data assigned to each partial bit group are allocated to a certain data source/data sink as a function of the control data.

Method for common transmission of digital source and control data

A method for the common transmission of digital source data and control data between data sources and data sinks. The data sources and data sinks are subscribers in a communication network with a ring structure. The source data and control data are transmitted in a format which prescribes a pulsed sequence of individual bit groups of identical length. Specific bit positions in each of the bit groups are reserved for source data and control data. The transmission is in a continuous data stream synchronous with a clock signal. An arbitrarily large contiguous region of the bit positions can be reserved for the source data within a bit group for data which are transmitted in data packets. Each of the data packets has a start with a subscriber address and a defined length.

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Gaggenau, Germany

Hans-Peter Mauderer