Donnelly Hohe Gmbh & Co. Kg

Volkswagen Ag

Pepperl + Fuchs Gmbh

Tim Weis

Edwin Seitz

Wolfgang Berberich

Benno Tobias Schindler

Rudolf Mai

Christoph Blankenburg

Werner Seitz

Armin Hornberger

Barbara Kolbe

A measuring device for triangulation measurement comprises a light transmitter for emitting illuminating light; a transmitting optical system for directing the illuminating light in a light pattern in the direction of an object; a light receiver for recording an image; a control and evaluation unit, which determines, in a measurement mode, form or position information of the object based on a measurement image of the light receiver. According to the invention the control and evaluation unit can change over between the measurement mode and a data reading mode, wherein the control and evaluation unit, in the data reading mode, evaluates the image with respect to encoded parameter data, and, in a subsequent measurement mode, uses the parameter data read in this way. In addition, a corresponding method for triangulation measurement is described.

Measuring device and method for triangulation measurement

A method of operating a display system in a vehicle () for finding a suitable parking place () with at least one camera () with which an observation area in the vicinity of the vehicle () can be recorded, with an image processing unit in which the image data coming from a camera () can be processed and a display screen () in the interior of the vehicle on which the image data coming from the image processing unit can be displayed as an image (). A parking place symbol () is superimposed by the image processing unit on the current image () on the display screen (), symbolizing true to scale an area in the current image () which the vehicle () can reach in parking, starting from its current position, taking into account the properties of the vehicle, in particular the size of the vehicle and the maximum steering angle.

Method of operating a display system in a vehicle for finding a parking place

The invention relates to a monitoring device () for a motor vehicle (), consisting of at least one display device () located in the interior of the vehicle, and at least one camera () arranged in the front and/or rear area of the vehicle (), with which the area to the sides of the vehicle () can be monitored and displayed on the display device (), whereby the camera () is arranged on a carrier unit located centrally on the vehicle (), and whereby the carrier unit can be withdraw into the bodywork when not in use and can be extended when required.

Monitoring device for a motor vehicle

A method is disclosed for operating a display system in a vehicle (), having at least one camera, using which an observation region () in the surroundings of the vehicle () may be recorded, having an image processing unit, in which the image data coming from the camera may be processed, a display screen () inside the vehicle, on which the image data coming from the image processing unit may be displayed as an image (), and a sensor system, using which the vehicle movement may be detected and relayed as movement data to the image processing unit. In this case, at a starting instant, a vehicle position is determined as a starting point, the vehicle () is moved further, beginning from the starting point, the rotational angle of the vehicle () around its vertical axis is detected by the sensor system, beginning from the orientation in the starting point, and the image data coming from the camera is processed in the image processing unit, taking the respective current rotational angle of the vehicle into consideration, in such a way that the orientation of objects () from the observation region () displayed in the image () on the display screen () corresponds to the orientation at the starting instant.

Method of operating a display system in a vehicle

A parking and/or maneuvering assistance device for a passenger vehicle or a commercial vehicle is provided with an image acquisition unit ( ), e.g., a video camera, and a graphic display unit with which the image information recorded by the image acquisition unit ( ) can be displayed in the interior of the vehicle either with or without processing. The image acquisition unit ( ) is situated behind a protective element ( ), so it is essentially inaccessible from the outside in a resting position, whereby a opening ( ) allocated to the image acquisition unit ( ) is provided in the protective element ( ).

Parking and/or maneuvering assistance device

The present invention relates to a method and a device for surveillance of the rearward observation area, specific to the outside mirror(s) of motor vehicles, in which the aforesaid observation area is divided into at least two observation zones ( ) that are detected using at least one image pick-up sensor element and the detected image is displayed on a display device ( ) thus providing an improved rearward view with fewer gaps (blind spots), wherein the observation zones ( ) cover different angular ranges.

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Bensheim, Germany

Tim Weis