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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2020
Continental Automotive Gmbh, Hannover, DE;
Thomas Reisinger, Regenstauf, DE;
Maximilian Treindl, Wenzenbach, DE;
Markus Doering, Straubing, DE;
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
Disclosed are a control device for a motor vehicle access or locating system and a method for operating a motor vehicle access or locating system, having the steps of: identifying a received signal that has travelled from a transmitter to a receiver of a control device along the strongest signal path, the peak path, as the peak path signal; determining the time of flight, ToF, of the peak path signal; determining a time interval, δ, of the time of flight of the peak path signal; determining a threshold value, T, for the reliability of a first path search depending on δ; carrying out the first path search at δ taking the threshold value into consideration.