Method for assisting a user of a motor vehicle when swerving around an obstacle, driver assistance device, and a motor vehicle

US11420680B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Christian Wall · Hitzhofen, DE
• Vincent KRATZER · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2018
• Grant date: Aug 23, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2050/146
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a method for assisting a user of a motor vehicle when swerving around an obstacle on a movement path of the motor vehicle. A driver assistance device carries out the following: providing a warning signal which describes an object on the movement path and a collision area which is visible through a window, preferably a vehicle window of the motor vehicle in which the object is located; defining a swerving area visible through the vehicle window, in which a swerving point for travelling around the object is visible, generating an accentuation signal, which describes a measure for accentuating the swerving area, and transmitting the accentuation signal to an accentuation device. Depending on the accentuation signal, the measure for accentuating the swerving area is carried out. The accentuation device can control a heads-up display, a monitor integrated into the vehicle window and/or a headlight.