Provision of an Efficient Environmental Map for a Vehicle
First Claim
1. A method for providing an environmental map for a vehicle, whereinthe environmental map represents a section of an environment and includes cells which are each assigned to a subsection of the environment of the vehicle,each cell is assigned occupancy information based on a probability of a presence of an object or part thereof in the subsection assigned to the respective cell, andthe vehicle is equipped with a group of at least two driver assistance systems, each driver assistance system being configured to adopt an active and an inactive state and which, in the active state, require occupancy information concerning sections of the environment that at least do not overlap completely,the method comprising the acts of:
- determining a respective driver assistance system or systems which are in the active state;
determining the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent based on the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state, whereinthe section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent comprises the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state.
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Abstract
A method provides an environmental map for a vehicle, wherein the environmental map represents a section of the environment and includes cells which are each assigned to a subsection of the environment of the vehicle. Each cell is assigned occupancy information which is based on the probability of the presence of an object in the subsection assigned to the cell in question. The vehicle has a group of at least two driver assistance systems which are each configured to adopt an active and an inactive state and which, in the active state require occupancy information concerning sections of the environment which at least do not overlap completely. The method determines the driver assistance system(s) which is(are) in the active state; determines the section of the environment that the environmental map is intended to represent, on the basis of the section(s) about which the driver assistance system(s) in the active state require(s) occupancy information. In particular, the section of the environment that the environmental map is intended to represent includes the section(s) about which the driver assistance system or the driver assistance systems in the active state require(s) occupancy information when in the active state.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for providing an environmental map for a vehicle, wherein
the environmental map represents a section of an environment and includes cells which are each assigned to a subsection of the environment of the vehicle, each cell is assigned occupancy information based on a probability of a presence of an object or part thereof in the subsection assigned to the respective cell, and the vehicle is equipped with a group of at least two driver assistance systems, each driver assistance system being configured to adopt an active and an inactive state and which, in the active state, require occupancy information concerning sections of the environment that at least do not overlap completely, the method comprising the acts of: -
determining a respective driver assistance system or systems which are in the active state; determining the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent based on the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state, wherein the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent comprises the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A device for providing an environmental map of a vehicle, wherein
the environmental map represents a section of an environment and includes cells which are each assigned to a subsection of the environment of the vehicle, each cell is assigned occupancy information based on a probability of a presence of an object in the subsection assigned to the respective cell, the device comprising: -
at least two driver assistance systems, each driver assistance system being configured to adopt an active and an inactive state and which, in the active state, require occupancy information concerning sections of the environment that at least do not overlap completely, an electronic processing unit configured to interface with a sensor system, wherein the electronic processing unit executes a program to; determine a respective driver assistance system or systems which are in the active state; and determine the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent based on the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state, wherein the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent comprises the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state.
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13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon program code sections which, when executed, carry out a method for providing an environmental map for a vehicle, wherein
the environmental map represents a section of an environment and includes cells which are each assigned to a subsection of the environment of the vehicle, each cell is assigned occupancy information based on a probability of a presence of an object or part thereof in the subsection assigned to the respective cell, and the vehicle is equipped with a group of at least two driver assistance systems, each driver assistance system being configured to adopt an active and an inactive state and which, in the active state, require occupancy information concerning sections of the environment that at least do not overlap completely, the method executed by the program code sections comprising the acts of: -
determining a respective driver assistance system or systems which are in the active state; and determining the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent based on the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state, wherein the section of the environment which the environmental map is intended to represent comprises the section or sections about which the driver assistance system or systems require occupancy information in the active state.
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