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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2019
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Helmut Erdl, Flintsbach, DE;
Abdelmalek Hanafi, Munich, DE;
Thomas Hausmann, Munich, DE;
Lenja Sorokin, Munich, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A motor vehicle includes a lighting module that generates a symbol on the ground in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, a surrounding sensor system that detects sensor information in a region in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, and a controller designed to control the lighting module depending on the sensor information such that the symbol is generated automatically by the lighting module in a ground region between the motor vehicle and another road user as soon as the distance between the motor vehicle and the other road user falls below a specified threshold according to the sensor information.