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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2017
Applicant:

Honda Research Institute Europe Gmbh, Offenbach/Main, DE;

Inventors:

Martin Heckmann, Offenbach, DE;

Heiko Wersing, Offenbach, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/0141 (2013.01); B60W 50/0098 (2013.01); B60W 50/085 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G08G 1/012 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/0133 (2013.01); G08G 1/167 (2013.01); B60K 2370/148 (2019.05); B60W 30/095 (2013.01); B60W 30/18154 (2013.01); B60W 2050/009 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0075 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0089 (2013.01); B60W 2540/043 (2020.02); B60W 2540/21 (2020.02);
Abstract

The invention relates to a system and method for assisting a driver in driving a vehicle. First information on an environment of the vehicle is obtained and an instruction from the vehicle driver is received. An evaluation task defining an aspect of a current traffic situation encountered by the vehicle and to be evaluated is defined from the received instruction. An evaluation of the obtained information according to the evaluation task is performed, and an evaluation result is generated. Other aspects of the traffic situation and their relation to the aspect defined in the task are then evaluated additionally. Finally an information on the basis of the evaluation result and the other determined aspects is generated and output.


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