Method for providing information about at least one object in a surrounding region of a motor vehicle and system

• US 9,983,307 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2016
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Skibinski, Sebastian
• Primary Examiner(s): Windrich, Marcus E
• Application Number:
  US15/521,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20170307754A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 342 70- 72
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3844 Data obtained from position sensors only, e.g. from inertial navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/867 Combination of radar systems with cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/88 Radar or analogous systems specially adapted for specific applications electromagnetic prospecting or detecting of objects, e.g. near-field detection, G01V3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/932 using own vehicle data, e.g. ground speed, steering wheel direction
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9327 Sensor installation details
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]

Abstract

A method for providing information about at least one object in a surrounding area of a motor vehicle of a vehicle fleet is provided. The information in the motor vehicle is detected and, together with position data of the motor vehicle is transmitted and provided to a traffic information collection device. The information having at least one first geographic location of the object and a second geographical position of the object is provided and the second geographical position is determined and provided depending on the first geographical position.

Claims

1. A method for providing information about an object in a surrounding area of a motor vehicle of a vehicle fleet, the method comprising:

detecting the information by the motor vehicle; and

providing the information together with position data of the motor vehicle to a traffic information collection device,

wherein the information comprises at least a first geographical position of the object detected by a motor vehicle-based sensor and a second geographical position of the object and the information is provided by the motor vehicle, and wherein the second geographical position is determined and provided as a function of the first geographical position, and

wherein the second geographical position comprises an auxiliary point for construction of a sub-object of the object and the auxiliary point comprises a radius of a contour region of the sub-object.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the first geographical position independently of the second geographical position.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing the information with a third geographical position, the third geographical position is determined as a second function of the first geographical position.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first geographical position comprises a center point of the object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the object comprises a vehicle infrastructure element located outside the motor vehicle in the surrounding area.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the vehicle infrastructure element comprises a roundabout and the sub-object of the vehicle infrastructure element comprises an entry of the roundabout or an exit of the roundabout.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the surrounding area is subdivided into sub-surrounding areas, and the information is provided to the traffic information collection device as a second function of the sub-surrounding areas.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is detected by the motor vehicle-based sensor of the motor vehicle and the information together with the position data of the motor vehicle are provided by the motor vehicle to the traffic information collection device.

8. A system comprising:

a traffic information collection device; and

a motor vehicle of a vehicle fleet, wherein the system is configured to;

detect, by the motor vehicle, information about an object in a surrounding area of the motor vehicle; and

provide, by the motor vehicle, the information together with position data of the motor vehicle to the traffic information collection device,

wherein the information comprises at least a first geographical position of the object detected by a motor vehicle-based sensor and a second geographical position of the object, and wherein the second geographical position is determined and provided as a function of the first geographical position, and

wherein the second geographical position comprises an auxiliary point for construction of a sub-object of the object and the auxiliary point comprises a radius of a contour region of the sub-object.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the system is further configured to determine the first geographical position independently of the second geographical position.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the system is further configured to provide the information with a third geographical position, wherein the third geographical position is determined as a second function of the first geographical position.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the first geographical position comprises a center point of the object.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the object comprises a vehicle infrastructure element located outside the motor vehicle in the surrounding area.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the vehicle infrastructure element comprises a roundabout and the sub-object of the vehicle infrastructure element comprises an entry of the roundabout or an exit of the roundabout.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the surrounding area is subdivided into sub-surrounding areas, and the information is provided to the traffic information collection device as a second function of the sub-surrounding areas.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the information is detected by the motor vehicle-based sensor of the motor vehicle.