Method and system for operating a vehicle by monitoring the head orientation and/or viewing direction of an operator by means of a camera device of a mobile control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8948930-B2
Application number	US-201313974455-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2013
Priority date	Aug 25, 2012
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

A method for autonomously controlling a movement of a vehicle includes detecting a respective actual position of the vehicle in temporal succession; recording in temporal succession with a first camera device of a mobile control device images of an operator located outside the vehicle, the mobile control device being held by the operator; determining with an analysis device an actual head orientation and/or a viewing direction of the operator based on the recorded images; and interrupting or terminating the autonomously controlled movement of the vehicle in response to at least one of two instances, a first instance in which the actual head orientation and/or viewing direction of the operator cannot be detected, a second instance in which the head orientation and/or viewing direction of the operator deviates for longer than a predeterminable time period and/or by a predeterminable angle from the actual position of the vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for autonomously controlling a movement of a vehicle, comprising:
detecting a respective actual position of the vehicle in temporal succession;
recording in temporal succession with a first camera device of a mobile control device images of an operator located outside the vehicle, said operator holding the mobile control device;
determining with an analysis device at least one of an actual head orientation of the operator and a viewing direction…

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Leinfelder Rudolf

Classifications

• G05D1/0011 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• B62D15/0285 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic