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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2005
Peter Frank, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Martin Laufer, Hasloch, DE;
Karl-josef Marks, Collenberg, DE;
Werner Seitz, Collenberg, DE;
Peter Frank, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Martin Laufer, Hasloch, DE;
Karl-Josef Marks, Collenberg, DE;
Werner Seitz, Collenberg, DE;
Magna Donnelly GmbH & Co. KG, Dorfprozelten, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating a display system in a vehicle () when driving into a parking space (), uses a camera () with an image processing unit in which the image data obtained by the camera () can be processed and a display screen () in the interior of the vehicle. After the vehicle has moved to the vehicle position in which the first parking-space icon () has been brought to overlay the parking space () shown in the real-time image, a second parking-space icon () is faded into the real-time image on the display screen () by the image processing unit, with this second parking-space icon () in the real-time image in true scale indicating a region which after moving along a first segment () of the travel path () towards the parking space () must be brought to overlay the parking space () shown in the real-time image. After the vehicle has moved to the vehicle position in which the second parking-space icon () has been brought to overlay the parking space () shown in the real-time image, a third parking-space icon () is faded into the real-time image on the display screen () by the image processing unit, with said third parking-space icon () in the real-time image in true scale indicating a region which after moving along a second segment () of the travel path towards the parking space () must be brought to overlay the parking space () shown in the real-time image.