Patents by Inventor Daniel Profendiner

Daniel Profendiner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12124754
    Abstract: Movement data characterizing the movement of a vehicle in which electronic smartglasses are used, are sent by a portable apparatus from a data output to the electronic smartglasses for reducing simulator-sickness-induced impairments. The electronic smartglasses display data taking into account the movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Nils Wollny, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 12062232
    Abstract: Digital content can be viewed in a vehicle without suffering from motion sickness by use of a system which includes a vehicle and data glasses. The vehicle includes a control unit and a plurality of sensors connected to the control unit. The data glasses can be wirelessly connected to the control unit and are intended to display a virtual 3-D integrating the digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 12037003
    Abstract: While a motor vehicle is travelling, a selected offer of entertainment for a vehicle occupant is output by use of a display device arranged in the motor vehicle. Driving characteristics of the motor vehicle are adapted by a control device of the motor vehicle to the offer of entertainment output at a given moment and the motor vehicle is autonomously controlled in a way corresponding to the adapted driving characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11971547
    Abstract: Motion sickness of a user occurring when viewing media content by use of data glasses during a journey in a motor vehicle is reduced. Vehicle dynamics data and glasses dynamics data are registered and a displayed perspective is controlled by a control device based on the vehicle dynamics data and the glasses dynamics data. In the displayed perspective, the media content is displayed in a media field which is shown so it is visible through a frame element and an artificial environment is shown adjacent to the frame element. A velocity component of the vehicle dynamics data is represented as movement of the artificial environment and an acceleration component of the vehicle dynamics data is represented by an inclination of the frame element with respect to the media field and a movement component of the glasses dynamics data is represented as a shift of the entire perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11928254
    Abstract: The invention relates to virtual reality glasses for a vehicle, which glasses are designed to display virtual contents coordinated with movements of the vehicle, wherein the virtual reality glasses have a chin strap by means of which the virtual reality glasses can be secured in a chin region of a wearer of the virtual reality glasses, and/or the virtual reality glasses are set up to allow the virtual contents to be displayed only if the performance of a safety measure has been detected by the virtual reality glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HOLORIDE GMBH
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11836864
    Abstract: Surroundings data, relating to at least one surrounding area in the surroundings of a motor vehicle situated in a field of vision of a vehicle occupant, are obtained by a sensor system of the motor vehicle. At least one piece of information, which needs to be output to the user, is provided by an information source. The information is at least partially overlaid on a display of the surrounding area by a display device with the type of information presentation and/or the position at, and/or the orientation in, which the information presentation is visualized being dependent on the surroundings data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11792625
    Abstract: A planned navigation route of a first motor vehicle is established as a reference navigation route. A second motor vehicle having a planned navigation route which satisfies a prespecified synchronization condition is selected, and a route length of the navigation route of the second motor vehicle is scaled to a route length of the reference navigation route. A route section of the reference navigation route is identified as a synchronizable route section, the route section satisfying a prespecified homogeneity criterion, and a route section of the scaled navigation route is assigned to the synchronizable route section. When the first motor vehicle is on the synchronizable route section and when the second motor vehicle is on the route section of the scaled navigation route assigned to the synchronizable route section, the provided output content which describes an avatar for the second motor vehicle is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11687305
    Abstract: Movement data characterizing the movement of a vehicle in which electronic smartglasses are used, are sent by a portable apparatus from a data output to the electronic smartglasses for reducing simulator-sickness-induced impairments. The electronic smartglasses display data taking into account the movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Nils Wollny, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11687149
    Abstract: A context processing unit receives an environmental signal from a registration unit of a motor vehicle. The environmental signal describes an item of information, independent of a movement direction of the motor vehicle, regarding an event in an environment of the motor vehicle. The event establishes a predetermined thematic context of media content of an output file. The predetermined media content of the output file is changed in dependence on the thematic context of the media content, so that a virtual environment described by the changed media content takes into consideration the information of the event in the environment of the motor vehicle with respect to context. The output file with the changed media content is transmitted to a display unit of an output device which outputs the output file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11609626
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a virtual reality headset in a vehicle, in which at least an instantaneous orientation of the virtual reality headset is determined by means of an inertial measurement unit arranged on the virtual reality headset, and a corresponding control device. Based thereon and on vehicle localisation data, a virtual perspective of a virtual environment displayed in the virtual reality headset is simulated. Therein, a relative arrangement of the virtual reality headset with respect to the vehicle interior is determined through an optical capture device arranged on the virtual reality headset. Corresponding data from the inertial measurement unit and the optical capture device are fused together to determine a corrected orientation or pose of the virtual reality headset with respect to the vehicle interior for simulating the virtual perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HOLORIDE GMBH
    Inventors: Simona Nobili, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11498458
    Abstract: A detection is made as to whether a vehicle occupant seated on a vehicle seat of a seating system of a motor vehicle has put on a pair of electronic data glasses. If the vehicle occupant has put on a pair of electronic data glasses, a check is performed to determine whether a predetermined minimum distance exists between the vehicle seat and an interior component of the motor vehicle. If the minimum distance exists, an adjustment range of the seating system is restricted in such a way that it is not possible to fall below the minimum distance. If the minimum distance does not exist, the minimum distance is established by automatically adjusting the seating system and/or outputting a message relating to the noncompliance with the minimum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11377113
    Abstract: A method for operating a partially autonomous motor vehicle, wherein in a non-parked state of the motor vehicle, sensor data of a sensor device, which detects at least one person in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, are analyzed with respect to a behavior of the person disadvantageously impairing the further driving operation of the motor vehicle and at least one action counteracting the behavior of the person is triggered in dependence on the analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Christoph Sippl, Daniel Profendiner, Felix Friedmann
  • Patent number: 11364867
    Abstract: Upon detecting that an occupant has donned electronic smart glasses, an occupant protection system in a vehicle takes into account that the occupant is wearing electronic smart glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11366326
    Abstract: A relative movement of a head-wearable electronic display device is determined with respect to a vehicle interior of a vehicle by way of a recording device arranged on the electronic display device and a virtual perspective of a wearer of the electronic display device is adapted to virtual content according to the determined relative movement. A recording range of the recording device is limited to the vehicle interior in order to eliminate distortions, resulting from a relative movement of the vehicle with respect to the vehicle surroundings, with regard to the recording of the relative movement of the electronic display device with respect to the vehicle interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11282299
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining a driving instruction, whereby environmental data relevant to the surroundings of the motor vehicle is acquired by at least one detection device of a motor vehicle, after which, as a function of the environmental data, a driving instruction relevant to the driving operation of the motor vehicle is determined, which is specified by a gesture and/or a pose of a traffic controller mapped by the environmental data, wherein the determination of the driving instruction is carried out as a function of at least one set of training data, which was previously acquired by the detection device or a further detection device and which maps a further traffic controller and at least a traffic participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christoph Sippl, Daniel Profendiner
  • Patent number: 11260750
    Abstract: A mobile sensor apparatus includes a capture device for capturing vehicle movements of the vehicle and an interface for transmitting data relating to the vehicle movements to a head-worn visual output device. A display system includes the mobile sensor apparatus and the head-worn visual output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11100718
    Abstract: Surroundings data, relating to at least one surrounding area in the surroundings of a motor vehicle situated in a field of vision of a vehicle occupant, are obtained by a sensor system of the motor vehicle. At least one piece of information, which needs to be output to the user, is provided by an information source. The information is at least partially overlaid on a display of the surrounding area by a display device with the type of information presentation and/or the position at, and/or the orientation in, which the information presentation is visualized being dependent on the surroundings data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11024081
    Abstract: A predefined virtual theme defines a specific virtual way of movement within a virtual environment. A route is selected which best matches the predefined virtual theme Movements of the motor vehicle are detected during a journey along the selected route. The virtual reality glasses are controlled so that a vehicle occupant wearing the virtual reality glasses moves virtually within the virtual environment according to the detected movements of the motor vehicle and according to the predefined virtual way of movement of the predefined virtual theme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 10935990
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for the driverless operation of a vehicle system of a motor vehicle designed for fully automatic control of the motor vehicle. In accordance with at least one sequential criterion, which evaluates a status of the driver, comprising location information describing the current position of the driver and/or comprising resource information describing an amount of a resource that is present or required for the driver, of which resource a supply is present in the motor vehicle, operating information describing the taking of the motor vehicle to a sequential position having a shorter, in particular minimum possible distance from the current position of the driver or from a predicted destination of the driver, is automatically determined and applied. A motor vehicle with an onboard vehicle system and a control device, for execution of the method, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Felix Friedmann, Daniel Profendiner, Christoph Sippl, Florian Netter
  • Patent number: 10643470
    Abstract: A method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle regarding an imminent overtaking maneuver by a driver assistance system, wherein the suitability of an overtaking process, which is ascertained from overtaking information, is output to a driver To determine the overtaking information, route data which relates to route sections and which influences the evaluation of the suitability of an overtaking process on a route section is ascertained by a plurality of data acquiring motor vehicles during a driving process along a route and is received by a vehicle-external central computing device. The route data assigned to a route section by each different motor vehicle is statistically evaluated to determine the overtaking information relating to the route section. The overtaking information is provided to all of the motor vehicles which have a driver assistance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Daniel Profendiner, Torsten Schön