Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Stefan Weidhaas

Thomas Tille

Michael Bauer

Michael Strolz

Jason Jeong-Suk Yoon

A method for automatically adapting vehicle lighting to the surrounding area of the vehicle is provided. According to the method, an image of an illuminated surrounding area of the vehicle is acquired. It is determined whether a road sign is present in the surrounding area of the vehicle. Once the position of the road sign has been determined, a light emitted by the lighting device of the vehicle is changed in the direction of the determined position of the road sign so as to reduce the reflection of the emitted light from the road sign.

Method for automatically adapting vehicle lighting to a surrounding area of a vehicle, lighting apparatus and vehicle having lighting

A method for image-based driver identification in a motor vehicle is provided. At least one two-dimensional driver facial image is recorded using a camera. Recorded driver facial images are temporarily stored. The temporarily stored driver facial images are compared to two-dimensional reference images of each possible driver from multiple possible drivers of the motor vehicle. The current recording angle between the camera and the facial normal line of the driver is determined by a device not otherwise used for image-based driver identification and relayed to the method for image-based driver identification and the recording of a driver facial image is triggered when the current recording angle reaches a specific preset value.

Method for image-based driver identification in a motor vehicle

A device for the detection of an object on a vehicle seat, including a camera and a processing unit for the generation of a two-dimensional representation of the object is provided. The device also includes at least two illumination sources, which are positioned in such a manner that the object can be illuminated from different directions, and the processing unit is suitable to generate a three-dimensional representation of the object from two dimensional representations, each generated under different illumination conditions.

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Munich, Germany

Stefan Weidhaas