Daimler Chrysler Ag

Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Pilz Gmbh & Co Kg.

Automotive Distance Control Systems Gmbh

Contintental Engineering Service Gmbh

Adc Automotive Distance Control Systems Gmbh

Continental Engineering Services Gmbh

Ulrich Kressel

Thomas Fechner

Stefan Hahn

Siegfried Rothe

Matthias Schorn

Markus Hess

Stephan Groitzsch

Christian Woehler

Walter Ziegler

Lars Krueger

Frank Lindner

Werner Progscha

Rainer Ott

Manfred Spitzer

Christian W&ouml;hler

Franz Kummert

Joachim Schmidt

Gerhard Sagerer

A device is arranged to carry out a method for identifying traffic-relevant information in a moving vehicle, wherein image data of a visual sensor and map data of a navigation system are each pre-evaluated for the identification and the results of the pre-evaluation are combined and interpreted. The image and map data is scanned for traffic-relevant information and compacted to relevant image and map data in a first and second scene interpretations, and the relevant image and map data is supplied to a rule engine and to a state machine for interpreting the image and map data. The rule engine evaluates the image and map data and transmits an action to be executed to the state machine which carries out a transition in its state space including pre-defined states and outputs information which is assigned to the state or to the transition.

Method and device for identifying traffic-relevant information

A method for observing a person in an industrial environment using a multicamera system to acquire image data about the position and alignment of a person, including a person's body parts. These image data are then examined with regard to the imaging of a person so that whenever a person has been detected in the image data, an articulated virtual 3D model of the human body is matched to this person hypothesis. Subsequently, this virtual body model is continuously matched to the movement behavior of the person detected in the image data. A hazard potential is determined using knowledge of the position and the movement behavior of the virtual body model in space. The hazard potential thus determined is subjected to a threshold value comparison in order to act upon the movement control of the machine or the machine part in the event of this threshold value being exceeded.

Method for observation of a person in an industrial environment

The invention concerns a system for assisting an operator of a technical appliance, with a image display device (), of which the image is in the normal field of vision of the operator, for display of operationally relevant information in the form of images or symbols (). According to the invention, a respective image or symbol is displayed at least once for a brief period of time, of which the duration is below the threshold of conscious recognition and above the threshold of subconscious recognition of the operator.

System for assisting the operator of a technical appliance

A process for the processing of signals by which signal S is optimally verified for association with objects of a desired class Z (wherein (with 1<&equals;k<&equals;number of different classes) and differentiated from undesired objects. One or more classes Z of undesired objects, and beyond this, as an additional class, a rejection class R is defined, to which all signals are assigned which are not clearly assignable to one of classes Z or Z . Herein the decision criteria under which a signal S is assigned to the reject class R is the comparison of the output value P with the adjustable threshold value t, which is provided by a classification algorithm.

Classification system with reject class

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Ulm, Germany

Ulrich Kressel