公开(公告)号：US20240400111A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18689049

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: CARIAD SE

Inventor： David Alexander Badouin ,  Endre Aladar Papp ,  Mohamed Essayed Bouzouraa

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  B60W50/00 ,  B60W50/04 ,  G06V20/56

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for checking whether a presently active automated and/or assisted driving mode of a first vehicle, which travels along a travel route by way of the driving mode, is being operated within an operational design domain (ODD) boundary of an ODD of the driving mode, wherein a measurement of ODD features marking the ODD boundary is carried out in an environment of the first vehicle by way of at least one environment sensor. The measurement is carried out by way of at least one second vehicle driving ahead of the first vehicle on the travel route, and is carried out by a back-end server that couples the at least one second vehicle to the first vehicle via respective communication links, wherein measured ODD features are gathered, and/or an ODD monitoring routine is carried out.

公开(公告)号：US20240393804A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18662291

申请日：2024-05-13

Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH ,  CARIAD SE

Inventor： Denis Tananaev ,  Niels Backfish

IPC: G05D1/633 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G05D101/15 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V10/774 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V20/70

Abstract: The invention relates to method (100) for detecting at least one obstacle in an automated and/or at least semi-autonomous driving system (60), said method comprising the following steps: providing (101) image data, wherein the image data are specific to a recording of an environment of the driving system (60), performing (102) an evaluation of the image data provided, wherein the evaluation takes place based on an application of a machine learning model (50), by means of which an occlusion label is determined for at least one occlusion of the environment, performing (103) the detection of the at least one obstacle on the basis of the occlusion label determined.

公开(公告)号：US20240391473A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18671758

申请日：2024-05-22

Applicant: CARIAD SE ,  VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Inventor： Bastian HERMANN ,  Ermis GASETOPULOS ,  Daniel MUENNING

IPC: B60W50/00

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for controlling a driving function of a motor vehicle, comprising capturing a location of the motor vehicle, capturing an environment of the motor vehicle, ascertaining information relevant to the driving function in the environment of the motor vehicle, retrieving falsification information regarding the information relevant to the driving function from a data memory remote from the motor vehicle based on the location and controlling the driving function based on the falsification information.

公开(公告)号：US12136275B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-05

申请号：US17794930

申请日：2021-01-13

Applicant: Cariad SE

Inventor： Christian Riechert

IPC: G05D1/617 ,  B60R1/24 ,  B60R1/26 ,  B60W30/06 ,  B60W30/08 ,  B60W30/09 ,  G01C3/00 ,  G05D1/622 ,  G05D1/646 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06T5/60 ,  G06V10/70 ,  G06V10/75 ,  G06V20/56 ,  G08G1/16 ,  H04N13/221 ,  G01S13/93 ,  G01S13/931 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G06V10/20 ,  G06V20/54 ,  G06V20/58 ,  H04N13/261 ,  H04N13/264 ,  H04N13/286

Abstract: A method for determining the orientation of a surface of an object in a detection region before or behind a vehicle by means of a camera of the vehicle comprises the following steps: detecting a first image of the detection region by means of the camera, detecting a second image of the detection region following in time on the detecting of the first image and by means of the camera, generating of first image data corresponding to the first image and second image data corresponding to the second image, determining of eight image coordinates of four pixels each in the first image and the second image, corresponding to four points on the surface of the object, by means of the first image data and the second image data, determining of a normal vector of the surface of the object by means of the eight image coordinates, determining of the orientation of the surface of the object by means of the normal vector.

公开(公告)号：US20240346691A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18636920

申请日：2024-04-16

Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH ,  CARIAD SE

Inventor： Denis Tananaev

IPC: G06T7/73 ,  G06T17/00 ,  G06V10/766 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V20/58

CPC classification number: G06T7/75 ,  G06T17/00 ,  G06V10/766 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06T2207/20016 ,  G06T2207/20021 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/20084 ,  G06T2207/30252

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for generating an environment representation (90), comprising the following steps:



providing (101) at least one image (40) which results from a recording by at least one image-capturing device (25) and shows at least one object (60) and/or a navigable region (65) in an environment of the at least one image-capturing device (25), the image (40) being split into a plurality of image columns (41),
generating (102) the environment representation (90), one stixel and/or free space element (30) of the respective image column (41) of the at least one provided image (40) being parameterized for this purpose in order to represent the object (60) and/or the navigable region (65).

公开(公告)号：US20240318976A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18575773

申请日：2021-07-06

Applicant: CARIAD SE

Inventor： Andre EISENMANN ,  Andreas HEIMRATH

IPC: G01C21/36

CPC classification number: G01C21/3682 ,  G01C21/3629 ,  G01C21/3694

Abstract: The disclosure is concerned with a method for operating a personal digital assistance system, wherein the method comprises that a processing circuit performs the step of receiving a search query expressed by a user for requesting answer data as an answer to the search query. The search query concerns a travel route and/or a specific travel destination and/or a point of interest, POI. The method is characterized in that in a selection step the processing circuit selects at least one of several selectable retrieval systems as the respective best retrieval system to which feature data of the search query are to be sent for obtaining the answer data.

公开(公告)号：US20240296042A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18575767

申请日：2021-07-08

Applicant: CARIAD SE

Inventor： Adrian NISTOR

IPC: G06F8/654

CPC classification number: G06F8/654

Abstract: The disclosure a method for updating an electronic control unit (ECU) with a flash memory. The method includes: receiving a request to download and install a software update package, determining a package size of the software update package and an update counter value based on the package size, incrementing an update counter for an allocated software update memory of the flash memory with the determined update counter value to obtain an incremented update counter, determining if the incremented update counter exceeds an update blocking value, and updating the ECU by downloading and installing the software update package in the allocated software update memory of the flash memory, if the incremented update counter does not exceed the predefined update blocking value.

公开(公告)号：US12078491B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US17861035

申请日：2022-07-08

Applicant: Cariad SE ,  Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

Inventor： Michael Holicki ,  Ralph Hänsel ,  Timo Iken ,  Christian Jördens ,  Roland Kube ,  Carolin Last ,  Stefan Wappler

IPC: G01C21/30 ,  G06T7/73

CPC classification number: G01C21/30 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G06T2207/30256

Abstract: According to a method for self-localization of a vehicle, a first pose of the vehicle is determined. Environment sensor data are generated by means of an environment sensor device and on the basis of this a landmark is detected in the environment. A position of the landmark is determined and in dependence on this a second pose of the vehicle is determined. A memorized assignment instruction is consulted, matching up the first pose with at last one preferred sensor type or at least one dominant landmark type, and depending on this a first portion of the environment sensor data is selected that was generated by means of a first environment sensor system of the environment sensor device configured according to a first sensor type. For the detecting of the landmark, a first landmark detection algorithm is applied to the first portion of the environment sensor data.

公开(公告)号：US20240239338A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18401055

申请日：2023-12-29

Applicant: CARIAD SE ,  Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

Inventor： Bastian HERMANN ,  Daniel D. MÜNNING

IPC: B60W30/12

CPC classification number: B60W30/12 ,  B60W2510/20 ,  B60W2552/50 ,  B60W2552/53

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method of expanding swarm data for controlling a motor vehicle by way of a driver assist system, wherein the swarm data for a route section include corresponding indicator swarm data regarding a course of at least two roadway or lane indicators on the route section, and wherein the swarm data are provided by registered roadway or lane indicator data. The method includes calculating, from the indicator swarm data, a minimum indicator swarm distance regarding the at least two roadway or lane indicators at one or more route section positions of the route section, and expanding the indicator swarm data regarding at least one of the at least two roadway or lane indicators with the indicator swarm distance at the one or more route section positions.

公开(公告)号：US20240199031A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18555496

申请日：2022-04-07

Applicant: CARIAD SE

Inventor： David Alexander BADOUIN

IPC: B60W40/08 ,  B60W50/08 ,  B60W50/14

CPC classification number: B60W40/08 ,  B60W50/082 ,  B60W50/14 ,  B60W2040/0818 ,  B60W2040/0872 ,  B60W2050/143

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking the fitness of a driver to drive a motor vehicle (10) and to a motor vehicle (10) for carrying out a method of this kind. The method comprises the following steps: identifying (S1) a transition signal (38) from a highly automated driving mode to a less automated driving mode; receiving (S2) a request signal (40) and outputting (S3) a request (42) characterized by the transmitted request signal (40) in the motor vehicle (10); capturing (S4) a response signal (44) which comprises a response (46) of the driver to the request (42); determining (S5) a fitness-to-drive value (48) which quantifies the driver's fitness to drive by evaluating the response signal (44) while applying a specified evaluation criterion (50), wherein it is checked whether the response signal (44) describes an expected response (52) associated with the request signal (40); checking (S6) whether the fitness-to-drive value (48) determined is greater than a specified fitness-to-drive limit value (54); and, if this is the case, permitting (S7) a manual intervention by the driver in the longitudinal and/or lateral control of the motor vehicle (10).