Valeo Schalter Und Sensoren Gmbh

Valeo Comfort and Driving Assistance

Siav-Kuong Kuoch

Christopher Steven Nowakowski

Mohamed Amr Mohamed Nader Abuelfoutouh

Eugenia Yi Jen Leu

Delbert Bramlett Boone, Ii

David Saul Hermina Martinez

Julie Marie Hardouin Arouna

Jean-Patrick Christian Marie Favier

Félix Louis Jean Marquette

Patrice Reilhac

Xavier Groult

Alexandre Jacques Garnault

Delbert Bramlett Boone Ii

Felix Louis Jean Marquette

A method for providing visual information about at least part of an environment on a display device is disclosed. The method involves detecting a first vehicle travelling ahead by a sensor device, requesting and receiving the visual information about the environment, a view onto which is concealed partly by the first vehicle, capturing an image of a certain part of the environment including at least part of the first vehicle, and displaying the image of the certain part of the environment and the received visual information as a video stream embedded in the image on the display device. When it is determined that an object different from the first vehicle is present in the certain part of the environment and that the object cannot be driven over, the displaying of the visual information is modified so that the at least one object is clearly visible for a driver.

Method for providing visual information about at least part of an environment, computer program product, mobile communication device and communication system

A method, system, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a shared vehicle experience between a user located in a remote location and one or more occupants of a vehicle. A device associated with the user receives an exterior video stream corresponding to an exterior environment of the vehicle, along with occupant information comprising location of the one or more occupants in the vehicle. Based on the occupant information, a first augmented video stream is generated. The first augmented video stream comprises one or more dynamic avatars representing each of the occupants of the vehicle, and shows the exterior environment of the vehicle from a perspective of a virtual passenger of the vehicle. The first augmented video stream is displayed to the user to provide the user with an experience of being in the vehicle.

Shared environment for a remote user and vehicle occupants

A method, system, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a shared vehicle experience. The method includes capturing an exterior video stream that depicts an exterior environment of a vehicle, and receiving remote user information indicating a bodily movement of a remote user. The method further includes generating and displaying an augmented video stream comprising a dynamic avatar representing the remote user as a virtual passenger, the dynamic avatar being updated based on the remote user information while the augmented video stream is being displayed in the vehicle. At least a portion of the exterior video stream and occupant information are sent to a computer device that causes, based on the at least a portion of the exterior video stream and the occupant information, a display device of the remote user to output an additional augmented video stream that provides the remote user with an experience of being in the vehicle.

Shared environment for vehicle occupant and remote user

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are presented for providing a mixed-reality scene involving a lead vehicle and a following vehicle. The system may present a sequence of mixed-reality images to a driver of the following vehicle, resulting from merging (a) an image captured by a camera aboard the lead vehicle and (b) an image captured by a camera aboard the following vehicle, to generate a merged image. The system may discontinue or diminish mixed-reality content of the sequence of mixed-reality images in response to one or more detected conditions, which may comprise detection of an object between the lead vehicle and the following vehicle.

Conditional availability of vehicular mixed-reality

The invention relates to a method for operating a driver assistance device of a motor vehicle (), wherein the driver assistance device is switched between an automatic drive mode, in which control signals are output at least to a steering device of the motor vehicle () by means of the driver assistance device and hereby a steering angle of the motor vehicle () is autonomously controlled by the driver assistance device, and a manual drive mode, in which the steering angle is manually controlled by a driver by operating a steering wheel () of the motor vehicle (), wherein with the switching the driver assistance device at least in one switching direction from one of the drive modes into the other drive mode, a moving light is generated along a predetermined lighting path () in a movement direction () associated with the switching direction by means of a lighting device ().

Method for operating a driver assistance device for autonomously driving a motor vehicle and motor vehicle

The invention relates to a method for supporting a driver of a vehicle () in maneuvering the vehicle () on a driving route (), in particular when parking a vehicle () into or out of a parking space (), with the aid of a portable communication device (). At least one vehicle external sensor device () is provided which is arranged stationarily relative to the driving route (). The sensor device () captures data relating to the vehicle () located on the driving route () and wirelessly emits signals () comprising the captured data in such a way that same signals () reach the interior of the vehicle (). The signals () are received through the portable communication device (), and the data are output through the portable communication device (). The invention also relates to a system () as well as a portable communication device ().

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