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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2019
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Michael Schulz, Sinsheim, DE;
Jihad Miramo, Stuttgart, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for controlling the output of driver information to a driver of a vehicle, with the objective of entertaining the driver and/or the passengers of the vehicle and/or increasing the driver attentiveness of the driver. A database of points of interest or objects of general interest, a database of topographic information, a device for determining the whereabouts of the vehicle, and an evaluation device to which these information items are delivered, are provided. The evaluation device ascertains, from the current whereabouts of the vehicle and from the topographic information, which points of interest or objects of general interest are present in the driver's field of view, and outputs via an output device the driver information regarding the point of interest or the object of general interest which has been ascertained by the evaluation device to be located in the driver's field of view.