Method for checking communication messages in vehicle-to-environment communication and suitable receiver

• US 9,299,252 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2012
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Menzel, Marc, Sthlin, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Lau, Hoi
• Application Number:
  US14/114,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20140055288A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: 340/936, 340/539.13, 340/903, 340/435, 340/438, 340/989, 340/988, 340/933, 340/937, 342/357.07, 342/357.1, 342/357.04, 701/213, 701/301, 701/70, 701/96, 701/32.3, 701/32.4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• 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 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

A method for checking communication messages in vehicle-to-environment communication, a communication message being received and evaluated, and to a receiver suitable for carrying out the method. In order to check a communication message, a feature obtained from the content of the communication message is compared to a feature that corresponds to said feature, the corresponding feature being obtained by a sensory system that is independent of the vehicle-to-environment communication.

Claims

1. A method for checking communication messages in a vehicle-to-environment communication, comprising:

receiving a communication message by a receiver in a first vehicle;

evaluating the received communication message;

obtaining a feature from the communication message regarding a second vehicle that transmitted the communication message;

obtaining a corresponding feature by a sensor system arranged in the first vehicle that is independent from the vehicle-to-environment communication that corresponds to the obtained feature; and

comparing the obtained feature with the corresponding feature,

wherein the feature obtained from the communication message includes a vehicle type of participating transmitter, and that the vehicle type of the participating transmitter is determinable by the independent sensor system.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the feature obtained from the communication message is at least one of a transmitted position of a participating transmitter and a speed of the participating transmitter, and

wherein the least one of the transmitted position of the participating transmitter and the speed of the participating transmitter is determinable by the independent sensor system.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the vehicle type of the participating transmitter is one of a private motor vehicle, a truck, and an emergency vehicle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the feature obtained from the communication message is a transmitted status of the participating transmitter, and that the status of the participating transmitter is determinable by the independent sensor system.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the absence of a match between the obtained feature and the corresponding feature, a message is generated by the receiver that at least one of allows inferences to be made about an identity of the transmitter and enables identification of the transmitter.

6. A receiver configured to check a communication message in a vehicle-to-environment communication in which the communication message is received and evaluated, wherein the receiver comprises:

a receiver that receives the communication message from a first vehicle containing a feature in the vehicle-to-environment communication, the receiver being arranged in a second vehicle;

a sensor arranged in the second vehicle that is independent from the vehicle-to-environment communication and configured to obtain a corresponding feature that corresponds to the feature in the vehicle-to-environment communication; and

a computing unit, wherein the computing unit is configured to;

evaluate the communication message;

obtain the feature from the communication message; and

compare the feature from the communication message with the corresponding feature,

wherein the feature obtained from the communication message is a vehicle type of participating transmitter, and that the vehicle type of the participating transmitter is determinable by the independent sensor system.

7. The receiver as claimed in claim 6, wherein the sensor device comprises at least one of a camera, a radio direction finding device, and a speed-measuring device.

8. The receiver as claimed in claim 6, wherein the receiver is a mobile stationary unit.

9. The receiver as claimed in claim 6, wherein the receiver is integrated into a participant in the vehicle-to-environment communication with further functions.

10. The receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein the receiver is a mobile stationary unit.