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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2017
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Tim Kubertschak, Ingolstadt, DE;
Thomas Bock, Kipfenberg, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a motor vehicle comprising a sensor assembly for a 360° detection of the motor vehicle surroundings. The sensor assembly has multiple sensors of the same type, wherein each of the multiple sensors has a specified detection region and the sensors are distributed around the exterior of the motor vehicle such that the detection regions collectively provide a complete detection zone which covers the surroundings in a complete angle about the motor vehicle at a specified distance from the motor vehicle. The sensors are each designed to detect the surroundings in their respective detection region as respective sensor data in respective successive synchronized time increments. The sensor assembly has a pre-processing mechanism which fuses the sensor data of each of the sensors in order to generate a three-dimensional image of the surroundings for a respective identical time increment and provides same in a common database.