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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026

Filed:

May. 03, 2022
Applicant:

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Markus Hofbauer, Munich, DE;

Christopher Kuhn, Munich, DE;

Goran Petrovic, Munich, DE;

Eckehard Steinbach, Olching, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/30 (2006.01); G06V 10/98 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/0098 (2013.01); G01C 21/30 (2013.01); G06V 10/98 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01); B60W 2554/20 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02);
Abstract

A method and an assistance device assist automated driving operation of a motor vehicle. Surroundings raw data recorded by way of a surroundings sensor system of the motor vehicle are processed by the assistance device in order to generate semantic surroundings data. This is accomplished by carrying out semantic object recognition. Further, a comparison of predefined semantically annotated map data against the semantic surroundings data is performed. This involves static objects indicated in the map data being identified in the semantic surroundings data as far as possible. Discrepancies detected during the process are used to recognize perception errors of the assistance device. A recognized perception error prompts a predefined safety measure to be carried out.


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