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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
May. 03, 2011
Ulrich Wuttke, Braunschweig, DE;
Philipp Hueger, Wolfsburg, DE;
Mehmet Terkes, Braunschweig, DE;
Stefan Bruening, Berlin, DE;
Ulrich Wuttke, Braunschweig, DE;
Philipp Hueger, Wolfsburg, DE;
Mehmet Terkes, Braunschweig, DE;
Stefan Bruening, Berlin, DE;
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
An obscured state of a vehicle, in which a distance measuring sensor of an assistance system is obscured by a part of the vehicle, is automatically detected. If the obscured state is present, a steering intervention of the assistance system into a steering system of the vehicle during a parking or parking-bay-exiting process of the vehicle using the assistance system is automatically deactivated or prevented. Furthermore, to avoid a collision of the vehicle using the assistance system, a notification of an obscured state is automatically generated when the obscured state is present.