Robert Boschgmbh

Hartmut Loos

Jan Karl Warzelhan

Werner Poechmueller

Achim Henkel

Wolfgang Niem

Guido Funcke

Wolfgang Niehsen

Thomas Focke

Julia Ebling

Andreas Hoertling

Christof Krueger

Marcel Merkel

Matthias Koenig

Thorben Schick

Jie Yu

Axel Baumann

Dirk Fortmeier

Patrick Klie

A safety device for use in a vehicle which is configured to be operated at least intermittently in an automated driving mode, in which the vehicle drives in an automated manner, and which includes a first data source which is designed as a human machine interface and configured to output data about a driving status, including computing device and a first data interface, the safety device being configured to receive data about the driving status from the first data source via the first data interface, the safety device being configured to receive data about the driving status from a second data source different from the first data source, and the safety device being configured to output pieces of information about the driving status to a driver, using an information output device and based on the data received from the first data source and the second data source.

Safety device for use in a vehicle, vehicle, and method for operating a vehicle

An information device is provided for informing a driver about a driving state of a motor vehicle drivable in an automated manner, the information device including a first control device for controlling automated driving of the motor vehicle and a second control device for controlling the automated driving of the motor vehicle, a first human-machine interface unit for communicating a driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver and a second human-machine interface unit for communicating the driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver, the first control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the first human-machine interface unit and the second control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the second human-machine interface unit.

Information device for informing a driver and method for informing a driver

In addition to the clear advantages of video monitoring systems for securing monitoring regions and optionally for following suspicious objects, there is the requirement to secure the private environments of people in the regions being monitored. A masking module () for a monitoring system () is disclosed for the above, wherein the monitoring system () has at least one monitoring camera () designed and/or arranged for observing monitoring regions with moving objects (), comprising a selection device for selecting objects as selected objects (), wherein the masking module () is designed to output the selected objects () or partial regions thereof subsequently together called selected objects () in a masked form, wherein the masking module () is designed to limit the masking of objects () to at least one selected physical partial region () of the monitoring region.

Masking module for a video surveillance system, method for masking selected objects, and computer program

A surveillance camera is positioned and positionable at a stationary surveillance position for monitoring. The surveillance camera has a calibration tool that is constructed or configured for ascertaining the stationary surveillance position of the surveillance camera.

Surveillance camera and method for calibrating the survelliance camera using a calibration tool

A method for detection and/or tracking of objects in motionin a scene under surveillance, in which besides the objects in motion, interfering objects and/or interfering regions&#x2014;both hereinafter called interfering factors&#x2014;can occur, is proposed, in which the scene under surveillance, a plurality of regions are defined that are divided up into various region classes; and a first region class Dincludes sensitive regions, in which no and/or only insignificant interfering factorsare located and/or are to be expected; and for detection and/or tracking of the objects in motionin the sensitive regions, a sensitive content analysis is performed, and a second region class Dincludes semi-sensitive regions, in which interfering factorsare located and/or are to be expected, and for detection and/or tracking of the objects in motionin the semi-sensitive regions, a semi-sensitive content analysis is performed, which is limited and/or modified compared to the sensitive content analysis.

Method for detecting and/or tracking objects in motion in a scene under surveillance that has interfering factors; apparatus; and computer program

In automatic assessment or surveillance with camera-based surveillance systems, it is of particular interest to detect moving surveillance objects, such as persons or motor vehicles, and track them over time so that if there are unusual trajectories or unusual behavior, an alarm can be tripped. An apparatus for image-based tracking of surveillance objects in front of a scene background in a surveillance scene is proposed, having an object segmentation module that is embodied for ascertaining moving object areas in front of the scene background on the basis of a comparison of one or more camera images with a reference image of the scene; having an administration module which is embodied for assigning surveillance objects to the moving object areas detecting fusion of two or more surveillance objects and marking them jointly as an object group; and having a feature detection module which is embodied in terms of programming and/or circuitry for determining local features for tracking the surveillance objects of the object group in the image areas defined by the moving object areas.

Apparatus, method and computer program for image-based tracking of surveillance objects

In daily life, people are often forced to join a queue in order, for example, to pay at a checkout or to be dealt with at an airport, etc. Because of the various forms of a queue, these are not usually recorded automatically, but are analyzed manually. For example, if a long queue is formed at a supermarket, as a result of which the predicted waiting time for the customers rises above a threshold value, this situation can be identified by the checkout personnel, and a further checkout can be opened. A deviceis proposed for identification of a queueof objectsin a monitoring area, having an interfacewhich can be connected to an image sourcewith the interfacebeing designed to observe at least one monitoring imageof the monitoring area of the image source, wherein the monitoring imageshows a scene background of the monitoring area with possible objectshaving an evaluation devicewhich is designed to identify the queueof the objectsin the at least one monitoring image, wherein the evaluation devicehas an object detector modulewhich is designed to detect a plurality of objectson the basis of the monitoring imagewherein the plurality of the detected objectsforms the basis for identification of the queueof the objectswherein the object detector moduleis designed to identify the objectsin the monitoring image with the scene background and/or wherein the object detector modulehas content-sensitive detectorsfor detection of the objects

Apparatus for identification of an object queue, method and computer program

The invention relates to video surveillance systems that are used, for example, for surveying public places, stations, streets, industrial estates, buildings or similar. Said video surveillance systems comprise one or more surveillance cameras that are oriented towards surveillance scenes and transfer image data streams, in the form of image sequences, to an evaluation center. The invention also relates to a device () for identifying and/or classifying a movement pattern in an image sequence of a surveillance scene comprising a plurality of moving objects, an interface () for recording the image sequence, a calculation module () for determining an optical flow field () in the surveillance scene by evaluating the image sequence and an identification module () that is designed in terms of programming and/or circuitry such that the optical field and/or partial areas thereof are compared to one or more patterns in order to identify the movement pattern in the image sequence.

Device for identifying and/or classifying movement patterns in an image sequence of a surveillance scene, method and computer program

The invention relates to a device () for creating and/or processing an object signature of an object from a scene, wherein the object signature is designed to describe and/or identify the object, comprising a characteristic extraction unit () designed to extract at least one characteristic value of the object from the scene, and wherein the characteristic value can be displayed in a characteristics space of the characteristic. The device further comprises a coding unit () designed to code the characteristic value into an identification data unit, wherein the identification data unit forms part of the object signature, and wherein the identification data unit refers to a partial region of the characteristic space of the characteristic.

Device for creating and/or processing an object signature, monitoring device, method and computer program

The invention relates to a monitoring system () for detecting and/or tracking at least one moving monitoring object () in a monitoring area (), having a plurality of monitoring sensors () which are and/or can be spatially distributed in the monitoring area () and which are designed to detect the monitoring object () and to output detected object information, having a signature lock () having at least one signature sensor () which is designed and/or arranged to detect the monitoring object () and to output object signature information, having an evaluation device () which is designed to create and/or add to an object signature () of the monitoring object () based on the object signature information and to detect and/or track the monitoring object () by comparing detected object information to the object signature () of the monitoring object (), wherein the signature lock () comprises at least two signature sensors () and is designed in such a way that the object signature information of the at least two signature sensors () can be associated with the monitoring object distinctly and/or unmistakably.

Surveillance system, method and computer program for detecting and/or tracking a surveillance object

A surveillance system () for monitoring a plurality of surveillance regions () is controllable and/or controlled by at least one human observer (). The system includes a state detection module () which is designed and/or situated such that the surveillance state of the observer () may be determined on the basis of optically detected state signals of the observer ().

Surveillance system having status detection module, method for self-monitoring of an observer, and computer program

Video surveillance systems are used for monitoring such areas as streets, railroad stations, industrial plants, buildings, or squares with video cameras, and on the basis of the sequences of images recorded with the video cameras, discovering anomalies in the monitored areas. A method for detecting image regions that are conspicuous in terms of the movement in them in a sequence of images of a scene and a corresponding apparatus and computer program are proposed, in which a current optical flow field in the sequence of images is calculated that includes motion vectors of image regions of the scene; an optical main flow field is determined that includes main flow directions of image regions of the scene; and a counterflow field with motion vectors of image regions that are conspicuous in terms of the movement in them is formed from image regions of the scene whose motion vectors are oriented differently from the main flow directions.

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