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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2013
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Rudolf Leinfelder, Eichstätt, DE;
Audi AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
In a method for operating a vehicle which performs an autonomously controlled movement, images of the vehicle are recorded in temporal succession with a mobile control which is held by an operator located outside the vehicle, a position of the vehicle in the images, a change of the position of the vehicle in the images, a proportion of the depiction of the vehicle of the total image content and/or a change of the proportion is analyzed by an analysis device, and in case the vehicle was not or only incompletely detected in the images, the proportion of the depiction of the vehicle of the total image content, the change and or degree of change of the proportion is above or below a predeterminable threshold value, the autonomously controlled movement of the vehicle ins interrupted or terminated.