Method and device for analyzing an image and providing the analysis for a driving assistance system of a vehicle

1. A method of an image analysis system of a vehicle for analyzing an image and providing the analysis for a driving assistance system of the vehicle, a plurality of operating states of the vehicle being predefined in the image analysis system and a plurality of image analysis processes being predefined in the image analysis system, the method comprising:

recording the image;

identifying which one of the predefined plurality of operating states is a current operating state of the vehicle;

based on the one of the predefined plurality of operating states having been identified as being the current operating state of the vehicle, selecting, from the plurality of image analysis processes, at least one of the plurality of image analysis processes that is predefined in the image analysis system as corresponding to the one of the predefined plurality of operating states that has been identified as being the current operating state of the vehicle;

based on the selection, analyzing the image selectively using the at least one image analysis process that has been selected, without use of others of the plurality of image analysis processes; and

providing the analysis of the image as data values for the driving assistance system.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image represents an environment of the vehicle, and wherein the data values are a description of at least one object therein.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image is recorded as at least a partial image, and wherein the at least one partial image includes a subset of image properties of the image.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the image is recorded as at least two partial images, and wherein each of the at least two partial images includes a different subset of image properties.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operating state of the vehicle includes at least one of the following states: a speed of the vehicle, weather conditions in an environment of the vehicle, and light conditions in the environment of the vehicle.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the analysis is performed by the at least one image analysis process in a way that enables the at least one image analysis process to include a first analysis task and a second analysis task, wherein at least one feature is classified by the first analysis task using the subset of image properties in the at least one partial image, and wherein the at least one object is determined by the second analysis task based on the at least one classified feature.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one object is a traffic sign, a pedestrian, another vehicle and/or an animal.

8. A device for analyzing an image and providing the analysis for a driving assistance system of a vehicle, the device comprising: a camera system that includes a camera, wherein the camera system is configured to record the image with the camera; a storage in which a plurality of operating states of the vehicle are predefined and a plurality of image analysis processes are predefined; and

at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

identify which one of the predefined plurality of operating states is a current operating state of the vehicle;

based on the one of the predefined plurality of operating states having been identified as being the current operating state of the vehicle, select, from the plurality of image analysis processes, at least one of the plurality of image analysis processes that is predefined in the storage as corresponding to the one of the predefined plurality of operating states that has been identified as being the current operating state of the vehicle;

based on the selection, analyze the image selectively using the at least one image analysis process that has been selected, without use of other of the plurality of image analysis processes; and

provide the analysis of the image as data values for the driving assistance system.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the analysis is performed by the at least one image analysis process in a way that enables the at least one image analysis process to include a first analysis task and a second analysis task, wherein at least one feature is classified by the first analysis task using a subset of image properties in at least one partial image of the image, and wherein at least one object represented in the image is determined by the second analysis task based on the at least one classified feature.

10. A system for operating a vehicle, the system comprising: a camera system for capturing an image; a driving assistance system for executing a driving assistance function; and a device for analyzing the image and providing the analysis for the driving assistance system of the vehicle, the device including:

a camera system that includes a camera, wherein the camera system is configured to record the image with the camera; a storage in which a plurality of operating states of the vehicle are predefined and a plurality of image analysis processes are predefined; and

at least one processor;

wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

identify which one of the predefined plurality of operating states is a current operating state of the vehicle;

based on the one of the predefined plurality of operating states having been identified as being the current operating state of the vehicle, select, from the plurality of image analysis processes, at least one of the plurality of image analysis processes that is predefined in the storage as corresponding to the one of the predefined plurality of operating states that has been identified as being the current operating state of the vehicle;

based on the selection, analyze the image selectively using the at least one image analysis process that has been selected, without use of other of the plurality of image analysis processes; and

provide the analysis of the image as data values for the driving assistance system.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first of the predefined plurality of operating states is a first speed range at which the vehicle is traveling and a second of the predefined plurality of operating states is a second speed range at which the vehicle is traveling, so that different ones of the predefined plurality of image analysis processes are used for the analysis depending on an identified current speed of the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the different ones of the predefined plurality of image analysis processes that are used for the analysis depending on the identified current speed of the vehicle, differ with respect to a number of image details of the image are analyzed.