Patent ID: 11935262
Assignee: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for determining object visibility to a driver of a vehicle, comprising the acts of:
ascertaining one or more objects in a three-dimensional scene generated from raw data representing the vehicle environment;
mapping the objects onto a curved surface so as to generate a two-dimensional image from the raw data, wherein the two-dimensional image includes a set of pixels corresponding to at least a portion of the mapped objects;
providing field-of-view data defining a field-of-view of the driver in the curved surface, wherein the field-of-view data is based on at least one sensor captured driver variable; and
determining a field-of-view probability for each of the objects based on the field-of-view in the curved surface and the two-dimensional image, wherein the field-of-view probability for each object is the probability that the object is in the field-of-view of the driver.