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US 12,415,517 · App. 18/031,179 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Vehicle guidance system and method for automated starting of a vehicle

Inventors: Bartono Adiprasito (Tiefenbach, DE); Helena Dolinaj (Munich, DE); Maximilian Guenther (Munich, DE); Frank Herchet (Neufahrn b. Freising, DE); Martin Jaensch (Munich, DE); Markus Kraemer (Dachau, DE); Julius Schulz (Munich, DE); Muhammed Yildiz (Kirchseeon, DE)
Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
B60W30/18154B60W30/16B60W30/18027B60W2540/215B60W2554/4041B60W2555/60
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Patent No.
US 12,415,517
App. No.
18/031,179
Granted
Sep 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle guidance system provides a driving function for automated longitudinal guidance of a vehicle. The vehicle guidance system is designed to determine that the vehicle is at a signaling unit. Furthermore, the vehicle guidance system is designed to detect that the driver of the vehicle is actuating an operating element of a user interface of the vehicle for controlling the driving function. The vehicle guidance system is additionally designed to bring about automated starting of the vehicle in response to the detected actuation of the operating element.

Claims (43)

1. A vehicle system for providing a driving function for automated longitudinal guidance of a vehicle at a signaling unit, comprising:

a vehicle guidance system configured, during operation of the driving function, to:

determine that the vehicle is at a signaling unit;

detect that a driver of the vehicle actuates an operating element of a user interface of the vehicle for controlling the driving function; and

cause the vehicle to be started from a standstill in an automated manner in response to the detected actuation of the operating element.

2. The vehicle guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein

the operating element is designed to be actuated using a hand and/or a finger of the driver; and/or

the operating element is arranged on a steering wheel of the vehicle.

3. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein

the operating element makes it possible for the driver to define a set and/or target speed of the vehicle for operation of the driving function; and/or

the operating element makes it possible for the driver to confirm a previously defined set and/or target speed of the vehicle for operation of the driving function.

4. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured to:

determine whether or not the vehicle has been longitudinally guided within a scope of the driving function in an automated manner until coming to a standstill at the signaling unit; and/or

determine whether the automated longitudinal guidance until coming to a standstill at the signaling unit has been carried out by the driving function automatically or only after confirmation by the driver; and

when it has been determined that:

(i) the vehicle has been longitudinally guided within the scope of the driving function in an automated manner until coming to a standstill at the signaling unit; and/or

(ii) the automated longitudinal guidance until coming to a standstill at the signaling unit has been carried out by the driving function automatically or after confirmation by the driver,

cause the vehicle to be started from the standstill in an automated manner in response to the detected actuation of the operating element.

5. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured to:

cause the vehicle to be started from a standstill in an automated manner in response to the detected actuation of the operating element if automated deceleration of the vehicle has been carried out at the signaling unit in an automatic mode or in a manual mode of the driving function; and

wherein a signaling unit is taken into consideration automatically in the automatic mode and only after confirmation by the driver of the vehicle in the manual mode during the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle.

6. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured to:

determine, on the basis of environmental data from one or more environmental sensors of the vehicle, that a signal group of the signaling unit that is relevant to the vehicle has switched from red to green; and

in response to the determination, adapt an output of information relating to the signaling unit via the user interface.

7. The vehicle system according to claim 6 , wherein the adaptation is a deletion of a display of the information.

8. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured to determine that:

(i) there is no other leading vehicle in front of the vehicle between the vehicle and a stop line of the signaling unit; and/or

(ii) the vehicle is in a first row at the stop line of the signaling unit; and

wherein, in response to the determination, the vehicle guidance system is configured to prevent the vehicle from being started from a standstill in an automated manner on account of the detected actuation of the operating element.

9. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured to make it possible for the vehicle to be started from a standstill in an automated manner in response to the detected actuation of the operating element only when it is detected that:

(i) there is at least one other leading vehicle in front of the vehicle between the vehicle and a stop line of the signaling unit; and/or

(ii) the vehicle is not in the first row at the stop line of the signaling unit.

10. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured, in response to the detected actuation of the operating element, to cause:

(i) the vehicle to be accelerated from the standstill at the signaling unit to a set and/or target speed defined by the driver within the scope of the driving function; and/or

(ii) the vehicle to follow a leading vehicle driving in front of the vehicle, starting from the standstill at the signaling unit, with a target distance defined by the driver within the scope of the driving function.

11. The vehicle guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle guidance system is configured to:

determine that a signaling state of a signal group of the signaling unit changes; and

in response to the change, cause information relating to the changed signaling state of the signal group of the signaling unit to be conveyed to the driver of the vehicle.

12. A method for providing a driving function for automated longitudinal guidance of a vehicle at a signaling unit, comprising:

during operation of the driving function:

determining that the vehicle is at a signaling unit;

detecting that a driver of the vehicle actuates an operating element of a user interface of the vehicle for controlling the driving function; and

causing the vehicle to be started from a standstill in an automated manner in response to the detected actuation of the operating element.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2023
From: ADIPRASITO, BARTONO; DOLINAJ, HELENA; GUENTHER, MAXIMILIAN; HERCHET, FRANK; JAENSCH, MARTIN; KRAEMER, MARKUS; SCHULZ, JULIUS; YILDIZ, MUHAMMED
To: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 063442/0580 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2020 126 678.2 · Oct 12, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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