Mathias Ernst

Title: Mathias Ernst and Automated-Driving Free-Space Detection.

Introduction

Mathias Ernst is an inventor associated with Gothenburg, Sweden, and Zenseact AB. His patent work addresses how an automated driving system can determine free space in a vehicle’s surroundings.

Latest Patents

Ernst is named on one patent, titled “Method and Device for Determining Free-Space.” The method uses an image of the vehicle’s surroundings to assess reference points. For each point, it determines a confidence score indicating whether the point belongs to free space, along with depth data indicating its distance from the camera. It then assigns the points to cells in a grid based on their depth and aggregates their confidence scores within each cell to determine free space around the vehicle. The reported patent count is 1 patent.

Career Highlights

Ernst’s listed invention focuses on combining image segmentation and depth information to support free-space detection for automated driving systems. This approach organizes visual data into a grid and uses aggregated confidence scores to help characterize the vehicle’s surrounding environment.

Collaborations

Ernst is associated with Zenseact AB. His listed coworkers include Thor Stefansson and Ömer Faruk Adil.

Conclusion

Mathias Ernst’s patent describes a grid-based method for combining visual confidence and depth data to determine free space around vehicles equipped with automated driving systems.