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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2019
Volkswagen Ag, Wolfsburg, DE;
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Alexander Urban, Gifhorn, DE;
Georg Maier, Hepburg, DE;
Sascha Ziebart, Braunschweig, DE;
Frank Schwitters, Königslutter, DE;
Gordon Seitz, Ehra, DE;
Volkswagen Aktiengsellschaft, , DE;
Abstract
A method for producing a surroundings map of a transportation vehicle textured with image information, including detecting at least first and second image information from vehicle surroundings using at least one transportation vehicle-mounted camera device; producing a surroundings map of the transportation vehicle; determining at least one area of the surroundings map in which both the first and second sets of image information are present; and selecting either the first or the second set of image information for texturing the area of the surroundings map according to at least one of the following criteria: selecting the image information with the highest resolution and selecting the latest image information. Also disclosed is an arrangement for producing a surroundings map of a transportation vehicle textured with image information and a transportation vehicle having the arrangement.