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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2018
Valeo Schalter Und Sensoren Gmbh, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Alexandre Garnault, San Mateo, CA (US);
Thomas Heitzmann, Bobigny, FR;
Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Abstract
A driving assistance method for a motor vehicle () when approaching a speed bump comprises, according to the invention: detecting and tracking at least one other moving vehicle () in front of the motor vehicle () based on processing images captured by a camera () on board the motor vehicle (); establishing a temporal profile of the estimated distance between the motor vehicle () and the at least one detected and followed other moving vehicle (); detecting an anomaly area in the temporal profile; and estimating a distance dbetween the motor vehicle () and a speed bump () on the basis of the estimated distance between the motor vehicle () and the at least one other vehicle () at a time separate from the times corresponding to the detected anomaly area.