Method and device for determination of and imaging of an environment subjectively taken to be real by a person

• US 20040243358A1
• Filed: 07/09/2004
• Published: 12/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daimler Chrysler Company LLC (Stellantis NV)
• Original Assignee: Daimler Chrysler Company LLC (Stellantis NV)
• Inventors: Toergyekes, Szabolcs, Zipp, Walter, Schliep, Michael
• Application Number:
  US10/483,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20040243358A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/189
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/02 Measuring two or more variables by means not covered by a single other subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/005 Solid-state data loggers

Abstract

In order to model an environment as naturally and realistically as possible, a method and an apparatus according to the invention allow the environment to be determined as perceived by a person, that is to say largely covering all of the sensory organs. In this case, the apparatus is in the form of a multisensor integrated measurement system which is used for simultaneous recording, in a manner typical of a person, of measurement signals, such as acoustic and optical signals, light radiation signals, heat signals and smell signals, and to reproduce them authentically.

Claims

1. (Cancelled)

12. The method as claimed in significant structures and patterns including at least one of vehicle identification, a voice identification, a weight or iris identification, are detected, associated, stored or transmitted to other systems by means of analysis of the data which is recorded by internal and external sensors.

19. (Cancelled)

27. The apparatus as claimed in open-loop or closed-loop control module for limiting currently recorded signal values which are above or below predetermined limit values.

31. The apparatus as claimed in an arrangements for reproduction of recorded signals including, loudspeakers, an apparatus for multidimensional representation, video screens, signal mixers, heat emitters or arrangements for convention heat, moisture, humidity, wind, smell, radiation, hazardous substance, electrosmog, magnetic field or radioactivity conditioning.

32. A method for measuring and modeling an environment perceived by a person, said method comprising:

measuring a plurality of characterizing signals wherein said characterizing signals correspond to sensory perception of the person; and

recording and analyzing said characterizing signals.

2. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein said characterizing signals include at least one of optical, acoustic, immission smell and touch signals.

3. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein meteorological signals, radioactivity signals, electrosmog signals, magnetic field signals and/or seismological signals which characterize the environment are recorded and determined.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein operating signals which characterize the environment are recorded and determined.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the characterizing signals, the meteorological signals, radioactivity signals, electrosmog signals, magnetic field signals, seismological signals and the operating signals are recorded and determined jointly or separately.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the characterizing signals, the meteorological signals, radioactivity signals, electrosmog signals, magnetic field signals, seismological signals and the operating signals are analyzed and assessed by means of a pattern comparison.

7. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the characterizing signals, the meteorological signals, radioactivity signals, electrosmog signals, magnetic field signals, seismological signals and the operating signals are linked and assessed.

8. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein discrete measurement variables (M) from specific recording systems, are recorded and taken into account in a roadway section that is to be monitored, by means of a quasihumanoid multisensor measurement and reproduction system.

9. The method as claimed claim 8, wherein data which is recorded by means of the multisensor measurement and reproduction system (1) is processed, analyzed, compared, assessed and linked on the basis of neural networks or fuzzy logic.

10. The method as claimed claim 32, wherein at least one of an open-loop and closed-loop control process and/or signal analysis is supported by neural networks or fuzzy logic.

11. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein a temporary memory is used to record acoustic, optical, immission, smell, temperature, moisture, humidity, air pressure, light radiation, wind direction, wind speed, structure-borne sound, radioactivity, electrosmog, magnetic field and/or seismological data, a content of which temporary memory is retained such that an open-loop or closed-loop control process initiates the retention of the currently recorded data as a function of the recorded data or as a function of external data.

13. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein artificial intelligence methods, including at least one of neural networks and fuzzy logic, are used for, detection, association and storage of significant structures and patterns.

14. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein interpretation options for individual analysis results are linked during analysis of recorded data from internal or external sensors are linked to one another in order to determine the basic cause which is common to all the recorded data.

15. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein relevant analysis results are prioritized for the linking of interpretation options for individual analysis results.

16. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein rolling movements of a vehicle are recorded by video analysis and are assessed with regard to the vehicle state, the vehicle load or whether the driver is fit to drive.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the analysis of rolling movements of vehicle bodywork is assisted by the introduction of a test signal which causes a chassis to move vertically.

18. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein a vehicle, a container or a person is monitored using a network, which comprises quasi-humanoid multisensor measurement and reproduction systems which communicate with one another, in a predetermined recording area of a road network or on a factory site, with regard to movement or operating parameters.

33. An apparatus for measuring and modeling of a subjective perception of an environment by a person, said apparatus comprising:

a plurality of measuring sensors for measuring a corresponding plurality of input representing sensory perceptions of the person;

analyzing means for receiving output signals from said plurality of sensors for recording, analyzing and determining a characterization of an environment perceived by the person.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, wherein a geometrical configuration of the measurement sensors models at least one human body part and comprises at least two noise sensors as well as at least one further sensor for recording of data light signal immissions, noise, touching, meteorology, radioactivity, electrosmog, magnetic field or seismology.

21. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, further comprising at least one opening for taking samples of immission data.

22. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, wherein the measurement sensors are arranged such that their position can be varied.

23. The apparatus as claimed claim 33, wherein an alignment, inclination or position of the measurement sensors can be varied as a function of the recorded output signals, optical signals, acoustic signals, meteorological signals, immission signals, smell signals, radioactivity signals, electrosmog signals, magnetic field signals, seismic or touch signals.

24. The apparatus as claimed in claim 23, further comprising a data memory for recording and storage of the output signals, of the meteorological signals, of the operating signals, of the radioactivity signals, of the electrosmog signals, of the magnetic field signals, of the seismological signals or of the touch signals.

25. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, wherein the analyzing means including an analysis module is provided for pattern comparison, assessment or linking of the recorded measurement signals, meteorological signals, operating signals or data.

26. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, further including at least one of an open-loop and closed-loop control module for influencing a traffic flow, as a function of the output signals, meteorological signals, operating signals or data which are recorded.

28. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, further including a test module for plausibility checking.

29. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, further including a control center.

30. The apparatus as claimed in claim 33, further including an adjacent measurement system for interchanging relevant measurement signals, meteorological signals, operating signals or data.