Method and device for vehicle communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10055987-B2
Application number	US-201314430047-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 16, 2013
Priority date	Sep 21, 2012
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

In a method for vehicle communication between a first and a second vehicle, depending on environmental information, predetermined situation messages are optionally provided for transmission from the first vehicle to the second vehicle. Depending on whether a selection is made, the selected situation message is transmitted, for example by a wireless radio link, to the second vehicle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for vehicle communication between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, comprising:
providing predefined situation messages for transmission from the first vehicle to the second vehicle;
manually selecting a situation message from among manually selectable displayed ones of the predefined situation messages; and
transmitting the selected situation message to the second vehicle,
wherein, in the manually selecting, the manually selectable situation messages are organized for display in the first vehicle on the basis of a probability of their respective use prior to the manually selecting of the situation message for transmission to the second vehicle, such that, in particular environmental situations, only a subset that is less that all of the manually selectable situation messages is displayed, and
wherein the probability of the respective use of the manually selectable situation messages is determined on the basis of a respective frequency of the use of the respective situation message.

2. A method for vehicle communication between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, comprising:
providing environment information having traffic-related features of the environment around the first vehicle;
determining an environmental situation in which the first vehicle is situated based on the provided environment information;
providing predefined situation messages based on the determined environmental situation;
manually selecting a situation message from among manually selectable displayed ones of the predefined situation messages; and
transmitting the selected situation message to the second vehicle,
wherein, in the manually selecting, the manually selectable situation messages are organized for display in the first vehicle on the basis of a probability of their respective use prior to the manually selecting of the situation message for transmission to the second vehicle, such that, in particular environmental situations, only a subset that is less that all of the manually selectable situation messages is displayed, and
wherein the probability of the respective use of the manually selectable situation messages is determined on the basis of a respective frequency of the use of the respective situation message.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising providing the predefined situation message for display on a display apparatus of the first vehicle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the display apparatus has a touchscreen, and the situation message is selected using the touchscreen.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein
the first vehicle has an environment sensor configured to sense an area of the environment of the first vehicle, and
the environment sensor provides sensor data relating to an image of the environment and the environment information is determined on the basis of the sensor data.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein
the environment sensor has a camera and the sensor data have image data.

7. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein map data are provided and the environment information is determined on the basis of the map data.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the selected situation message is transmitted using wireless radio transmission.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the selected situation message is transmitted to a server and the server forwards the selected situation message to the second vehicle.

10. A device for vehicle communication between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the device being configured to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1 .

11. The method as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising providing the predefined situation message for display on a display apparatus of the first vehicle.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the display apparatus has a touchscreen, and the situation message is selected using the touchscreen.

13. A device for vehicle communication between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the device being configured to carry out the method as claimed in claim 2 .

Assignees

• Continental Automotive Gmbh

Inventors

• Stählin Ulrich

Classifications

• H04W76/10

  Connection setup · CPC title

• G08G1/096791

  where the origin of the information is another vehicle · CPC title

• G08G1/0962 Primary

  having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages · CPC title

• H04L67/12 Primary

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04W4/046

  Electricity · mapped topic