Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Adc Automotive Distance Control Systems Gmbh

Matthias Strauss

Ulrich Stählin

Alfred Eckert

Stefan Hegemann

Stefan Heinrich

Stefan Lüke

Dieter Kroekel

Thomas Berthold

Stefan Lueke

Matthias Komar

Wilfried Mehr

Dirk Waldbauer

Xiuxun Yin

Carsten Birke

Juergen Pfeiffer

Galin Bobev

Wolfgang Guenther

Robert Baier

Jürgen Pfeiffer

Enrico Rück

Timo Seifert

Wolfgang GÜNTHER

A driver assistance system and an operating method thereof are configured and adapted to perform autonomous longitudinal and/or lateral control of a vehicle. At least one control task for longitudinal and/or lateral control of the vehicle can be transferred from the driver to the driver assistance system. This involves informing the driver that a control task can be transferred to the system, and then transferring the control task from the driver to the system in response to the driver ceasing a manual control of this control task.

Method for a driver assistance system for autonomous longitudinal and/or lateral control of a vehicle

The present invention relates to a method and device for reducing instances of vehicle collisions. Based on parameter data of a first vehicle and road conditions, and parameter data regarding a second vehicle, the first vehicle can undergo warnings or positional adjustments to reduce the likelihood of a collision with the second vehicle or other collision body. The vehicle adjustment can be in the form of braking or steering adjustments. The warning can be in the form of a visual, audio, or haptic signal.

Method and distance control device for preventing collisions of a motor vehicle in a driving situation with little lateral distance

A method for the automated braking and/or steering of a vehicle uses at least one sensor system for detecting the vehicle's surroundings, a potential collision object in the vehicle's surroundings, and a relative speed of the vehicle relative to the potential collision object. The activation and/or the sequence of an automated steering intervention and/or an automated braking intervention is determined based on the relative speed. The braking intervention is activated at first when the relative speed is below or equal to a predefined threshold, and the steering intervention is activated at first when the relative speed is above the predefined threshold.

Method and device for the automated braking and steering of a vehicle

In a method for evaluating image data of a vehicle camera, information about raindrops on the vehicle's windshield within the field of view of the camera is taken into account in the evaluation of the image data for detection and classification of objects in the environment of the vehicle. Particularly, for example, depending on the number and the size of the raindrops on the windshield, different detection algorithms, image evaluation criteria, classification parameters, or classification algorithms are used for the detection and classification of objects.

Method for evaluating image data of a vehicle camera taking into account information about rain

A method of automatically preventing or reducing aquaplaning during the driving operation of a motor vehicle on a route provides that:

Method for automatically preventing aquaplaning

In a method for determining a course of a traffic lane for a vehicle (), structures that demarcate a trafficable space are detected in image data from an image acquisition unit (), and these structures are plotted on a surroundings map () that subdivides the surroundings of the vehicle into a two-dimensional grid () of cells (). The position of the vehicle in the grid of the surroundings map is determined and updated by odometric data. The distance and the direction of the vehicle () relative to those cells () of the grid () having structures that demarcate the pavement and/or the traffic lane are determined. Brightness transitions in the image data are detected and are plotted on the cells () of the grid (). The course of the traffic lane () is determined from the cells with the detected brightness transitions.

Method for determining a course of a traffic lane for a vehicle

Method for detecting concealed objects in road traffic in which the surroundings of a vehicle and movement variables of the driver's vehicle are sensed by sensors, said variables are transmitted as information to vehicles which are located in the surroundings by an interface for vehicle-to-vehicle communication and are received from the vehicles which are located in the surroundings, wherein the following steps are executed:

Method and apparatus for identifying concealed objects in road traffic

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Matthias Strauss