Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080252486 | Method for Determining the Ability to Enter a Parking Space and a Parking Assist Device - Disclosed is a method of determining the ability to enter a parking gap starting from an initial position of a vehicle. The negotiability is determined by way of two characteristic diagrams (y | 10-16-2008 |
20090125181 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING A DRIVER WHEN PARKING OR MANEUVERING A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for assisting a driver when parking or maneuvering a motor vehicle having at least one driver assistance system and a vehicle safety system is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting the surroundings and calculating a desired path in a calculation model, in which the differences in traveling distance between the individual wheels are monitored and determined by means of the vehicle safety system. The desired path is predicted in a calculation model by means of the differences in traveling distance, and detection of the surroundings is carried out by means of the driver assistance system. Furthermore, a system which is suitable to implement the method is provided. | 05-14-2009 |
20090128315 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ABSOLUTE TIRE ROLLING CIRCUMFERENCES AND TIRE PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM - A method of determining absolute rolling circumferences of tires of a motor vehicle is disclosed, in which the absolute rolling circumferences (U | 05-21-2009 |
20090212930 | Method and Device for Avoiding a Collision in a Lane Change Maneuver of a Vehicle - Disclosed is a method for avoiding a collision in a lane change maneuver of a vehicle to a target lane, where objects in a lateral rearward space of the vehicle are detected by an ambience monitoring device and measures are taken to influence the vehicle. The method is characterized in that graded measures are provided that depending on their stage, involve warning the driver and/or intervening into a steering system of the vehicle and/or influencing safety devices. The measures of a selected stage are initiated, with the stage being determined depending on a relative position of a detected object with regard to the vehicle and/or a relative speed between the vehicle and the detected object as well as depending on the fulfillment of a lane change condition. Also disclosed is a device that is well suited to implement the method. | 08-27-2009 |
20100007728 | System for Determining Objects - A system for multimodal detection of objects in a field of vision located in front of or behind a vehicle, wherein a surroundings-sensing process is carried out by a radar sensor, the radar sensor output signal is fed to a radar signal analysis method, and a visual surroundings-sensing process is carried out by a video sensor, the video output signal being fed to a video analysis method. Object determination takes place such that objects detected by the radar signal analysis method are fed for verification to an object confirmation and situation analysis module by an object detected by the video analysis method. | 01-14-2010 |
20100052944 | Vehicle and Method for Identifying Vehicles Located in the Surroundings of the Vehicle - Vehicle having a surroundings-sensing system which makes available information on the surroundings to a closed-loop and open-loop control unit of the vehicle, and a closed-loop and/or open-loop control process changes the driving behavior as a function of the acquired information on the surroundings, wherein the vehicle has a registration information system which receives the registration information for vehicles in the surroundings, and in that the registration information system compares the received registration information with the registration information acquired by a surroundings-sensing system and changes the closed-loop and/or open-loop control process as a function of the result of the comparison. | 03-04-2010 |
20100094509 | System for Reducing The Braking Distance of a Vehicle - Method for reducing the stopping distance of a vehicle, wherein data which are received via a vehicle-to-vehicle communication are analysed, and a surroundings analysis for the driver's own vehicle is carried out, and vehicle-specific data are transmitted and integrated into an existing safety concept. | 04-15-2010 |
20130170399 | CONTROLLER IN BIDIRECTIONAL ADHOC NETWORK RADIO COMMUNICATION - The invention describes a controller for data processing in bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication with a computation unit for data processing and ports for data input and data output. The computation unit is set up to process the data according to the ITS standard, wherein the data processing is limited to processing steps of the ITS Facility layer, which performs content-oriented evaluation and/or conditioning of the data which are received or need to be sent by means of the bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication, and a first wideband communication port is provided at least for receiving the data from an ITS communication unit for the purpose of bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication. | 07-04-2013 |
20130197804 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VIRTUAL VEHICLE CORRIDOR - A method for assisting a vehicle driver, wherein a sensor for covering the surroundings covers a pavement in front of the vehicle in order to determine a virtual vehicle corridor for a road vehicle in a complex traffic situation and the virtual vehicle corridor is determined depending on identified traffic lines and raised pavement boundaries. | 08-01-2013 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090212930 | Method and Device for Avoiding a Collision in a Lane Change Maneuver of a Vehicle - Disclosed is a method for avoiding a collision in a lane change maneuver of a vehicle to a target lane, where objects in a lateral rearward space of the vehicle are detected by an ambience monitoring device and measures are taken to influence the vehicle. The method is characterized in that graded measures are provided that depending on their stage, involve warning the driver and/or intervening into a steering system of the vehicle and/or influencing safety devices. The measures of a selected stage are initiated, with the stage being determined depending on a relative position of a detected object with regard to the vehicle and/or a relative speed between the vehicle and the detected object as well as depending on the fulfillment of a lane change condition. Also disclosed is a device that is well suited to implement the method. | 08-27-2009 |
20100007728 | System for Determining Objects - A system for multimodal detection of objects in a field of vision located in front of or behind a vehicle, wherein a surroundings-sensing process is carried out by a radar sensor, the radar sensor output signal is fed to a radar signal analysis method, and a visual surroundings-sensing process is carried out by a video sensor, the video output signal being fed to a video analysis method. Object determination takes place such that objects detected by the radar signal analysis method are fed for verification to an object confirmation and situation analysis module by an object detected by the video analysis method. | 01-14-2010 |
20100052944 | Vehicle and Method for Identifying Vehicles Located in the Surroundings of the Vehicle - Vehicle having a surroundings-sensing system which makes available information on the surroundings to a closed-loop and open-loop control unit of the vehicle, and a closed-loop and/or open-loop control process changes the driving behavior as a function of the acquired information on the surroundings, wherein the vehicle has a registration information system which receives the registration information for vehicles in the surroundings, and in that the registration information system compares the received registration information with the registration information acquired by a surroundings-sensing system and changes the closed-loop and/or open-loop control process as a function of the result of the comparison. | 03-04-2010 |
20100094509 | System for Reducing The Braking Distance of a Vehicle - Method for reducing the stopping distance of a vehicle, wherein data which are received via a vehicle-to-vehicle communication are analysed, and a surroundings analysis for the driver's own vehicle is carried out, and vehicle-specific data are transmitted and integrated into an existing safety concept. | 04-15-2010 |
20110164594 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - An apparatus and a method for transmitting information in vehicle-to-vehicle communication based on IEEE802.11 standard WLAN, which involves both safety information based on the IEEE802.11p standard and non-safety-related information based on another IEEE802.11 standard being transmitted. The apparatus is equipped with a transmission and/or reception device which has a WLAN chipset. In order to achieve the vehicle-to-vehicle communication with a single piece of hardware, provision is made for the WLAN chipset to be able to be changed over by a control command between a first mode based on the IEEE802.11p standard and a second mode based on another IEEE802.11 standard and for the apparatus to have a control device which changes over the mode of the WLAN chipset using a control command. | 07-07-2011 |
20110200230 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING SURROUNDING OBJECTS AND/OR SURROUNDING SCENES, SUCH AS FOR OBJECT AND SCENE CLASS SEGMENTING - The invention relates to a method and an object detection device for analysing objects in the environment and/or scenes in the environment. The object detection device includes a data processing and/or evaluation device. In the data processing and/or evaluation device, image data (x | 08-18-2011 |
20110243376 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DETECTING OBJECTS IN AN IMAGE - Detection of an object of a specified object category in an image. With the method, it is provided that: (1) at least two detectors are provided which are respectively set up for the purpose of detecting an object of the specified object category with a specified object size, wherein object sizes differ for the detectors, (2) the image is evaluated by the detectors in order to check whether an object of the specified object category is located in the image, and (3) an object of the specified object category is detected in the image when on the basis of the evaluation of the image by at least one of the detectors it is determined that an object of the specified object category is located in the image. A system suitable for implementing the method for detecting an object of a specified object category in an image is also described. | 10-06-2011 |
20130170399 | CONTROLLER IN BIDIRECTIONAL ADHOC NETWORK RADIO COMMUNICATION - The invention describes a controller for data processing in bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication with a computation unit for data processing and ports for data input and data output. The computation unit is set up to process the data according to the ITS standard, wherein the data processing is limited to processing steps of the ITS Facility layer, which performs content-oriented evaluation and/or conditioning of the data which are received or need to be sent by means of the bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication, and a first wideband communication port is provided at least for receiving the data from an ITS communication unit for the purpose of bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication. | 07-04-2013 |
20130197804 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VIRTUAL VEHICLE CORRIDOR - A method for assisting a vehicle driver, wherein a sensor for covering the surroundings covers a pavement in front of the vehicle in order to determine a virtual vehicle corridor for a road vehicle in a complex traffic situation and the virtual vehicle corridor is determined depending on identified traffic lines and raised pavement boundaries. | 08-01-2013 |