Method and Appratus for Identifying Concealed Objects In Road Traffic
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Abstract
Method for detecting concealed objects in road traffic in which the surroundings of a vehicle and movement variables of the driver'"'"'s vehicle are sensed by sensors, said variables are transmitted as information to vehicles which are located in the surroundings by an interface for vehicle-to-vehicle communication and are received from the vehicles which are located in the surroundings, wherein the following steps are executed:
- the data from the sensors expand a surroundings model,
- the expanded surroundings model is represented in updated form by a display in the driver'"'"'s vehicle,
- a situation analysis of the surroundings and an evaluation of the situation are carried out in the driver'"'"'s vehicle,
- objects which represent an accident hazard on the display are displayed with a high priority,
- predefined steps for reducing accident hazard are activated in the driver'"'"'s vehicle,
- information relating to the pre-defined steps are transmitted to the surroundings by the communication system.
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16 Claims
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1-8. -8. (canceled)
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9. Method for detecting concealed objects in road traffic in which surroundings of a driver'"'"'s vehicle and movement variables of the driver'"'"'s vehicle are sensed by sensors, wherein said movement variables are transmitted as information to vehicles which are located in the surroundings of the driver'"'"'s vehicle by an interface for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and movement variables are received from the vehicles which are located in the surroundings, said method comprising the steps of:
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a) generating or updating a surroundings model based upon data from the sensors, b) representing the generated or updated surroundings model in updated form on a display in the driver'"'"'s vehicle, c) performing a situation analysis of the surroundings and an evaluation of the situation in the driver'"'"'s vehicle, d) displaying objects which represent an accident hazard on the display with a high priority, e) activating predefined steps for reducing the accident hazard in the driver'"'"'s vehicle, and f) transmitting information relating to the steps which have been initiated in order to reduce the accident hazard to the surroundings via the interface for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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