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

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 of the operator based on the images recorded with the camera device; 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.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the actual position of the vehicle is detected by means of at least one of recording images of the vehicle in temporal succession with a second camera device of the mobile control device and data relating to the actual position or data relating to at least one member selected from the group consisting of a starting position of the vehicle, a speed of the vehicle, a speed profile of the vehicle, a direction and a directional profile.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mobile control device is constructed as a smartphone.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analysis device is constructed as a calculation device and is situated in the mobile control device or in the vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting data between the vehicle and the mobile control device by means of a wireless radio connection by using a radio standard according to a member selected from the group consisting of IEEE-802.11a, IEEE-802.11b, IEEE-802.11g, IEEE-802.11n (also referred to as wireless Lan-, WLAN- or Wi-Fi standards), IEEE-80215.1, IEEE-802.15.2, IEEE-802.15.3, IEEE-802.15.4 and further developments thereof or by using a mobile radio standard.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting a signal per radio to the vehicle by the operator located outside the vehicle by means of a handheld transmitter and/or the mobile control device for starting the autonomously controlled movement of the vehicle.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting a signal to the vehicle by the operator located outside the vehicle by means of a handheld transmitter and/or the mobile control device to interrupt or terminate the autonomously controlled movement of the vehicle.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the autonomously controlled movement includes at least one of an autonomous parking procedure, an autonomous unparking procedure and an autonomous continuance of a drive of the vehicle.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image that have been recorded in temporal succession by the camera device of the mobile control device are displayed in real time on a display device of the mobile control device.

10. A system for operating a vehicle, comprising:

a vehicle; and

a mobile control device, said vehicle and said mobile control device being configured for implementing the method of claim 1 .