Patent ID: 9662979
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B60K,B60R

Claim:
1. A method for presenting safety information on a display device of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having an environment imaging device, the method comprising: pictorially capturing, by the environment imaging device, an object in an environmental region of the motor vehicle; and presenting a distortion demonstration on the display device as safety information, wherein the distortion demonstration comprises a deviation of a distorted mapping of the object causally generated by the environment imaging device to an undistorted mapping of the object compared thereto, wherein the distorted mapping is displayed as an image and the undistorted mapping is displayed as a further image on the display device, and wherein the distortion demonstration is displayed in a demonstration mode of a driver assistance system of the motor vehicle and a distortion demonstration including the safety information is not displayed in a normal operating mode of the driver assistance system different from the demonstration mode, the demonstration mode being configured to present to a driver of the motor vehicle a difference between the distorted mapping of the object and the undistorted mapping of the object.