Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Relative location – Collision avoidance
Reexamination Certificate
2004-04-14
2010-06-01
Nguyen, Cuong H (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Relative location
Collision avoidance
C701S300000, C340S901000, C340S903000, C340S904000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07729856
ABSTRACT:
A method and a device for detecting objects in the blind spot of a vehicle are provided, which make it possible, through an adaptively decreased measuring time, to achieve a shorter response time for alerting a driver in the event of an imminent collision with an object in the blind spot. Due to the fact that the frequency and/or the width of a measuring signal is/are set as a function of the previously determined distance between the vehicle and the object, it is possible to increase the sampling rate proportional to the decrease in the distance between the vehicle and the object. This makes it possible to detect the closest object more rapidly, i.e., for the most relevant object for a potential collision to be evaluated, thereby generating an adequately early collision alert. The frequency of a measuring signal is preferably set reciprocally proportional to the determined distance between the vehicle and the object.
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Nguyen Cuong H
Robert & Bosch GmbH
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