VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATION AND/OR DRIVER ASSISTANCE

• US 20130245941A1
• Filed: 05/06/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Sthlin, Ulrich, Grotendorst, Thomas, Gee, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 8,781,733 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/532
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/65 Data transmitted between vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/08 Active safety systems predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision or attempting to minimise its consequences
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/095 Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3602 Input other than that of destination using image analysis, e.g. detection of road signs, lanes, buildings, real preceding vehicles using a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3848 Data obtained from both position sensors and additional sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/45 by combining measurements of signals from the satellite radio beacon positioning system with a supplementary measurement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

Disclosed herein is assistance, safety and navigation technology for vehicles. In particular, the disclosure relates to a vehicle system and a method for controlling the vehicle system.

Claims

1. A vehicle system for map verification comprising:

an update module by which a map update can be loaded;

a version memory in which the map update can be stored separately from an existing map;

at least one vehicle sensor, surroundings sensor and/or traffic telematics receiver, and

a map update provider configured to compare the map update with an output of the at least one vehicle sensor, surroundings sensor and/or traffic telematics receiver and check the map update for plausibility.

2. A vehicle system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle system releases the map for use which coincides more with the output of the at least one vehicle sensor, surroundings sensor and/or traffic telematics receiver.

3. A vehicle system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle system is configured such that the existing map extract is overwritten with the updated map extract from the update module if the updated map extract has a higher degree of coincidence with an output of the at least one vehicle sensor, surroundings sensor and/or traffic telematics receiver.

4. A method for controlling a vehicle system for map verification, comprising the steps of:

loading a map update in an update module;

storing the map update in a version memory separately from an existing map,

comparing the map update with an output of at least one vehicle sensor, surroundings sensor and/or traffic telematics receiver and checking the map update for plausibility.