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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2023
Aptiv Technologies Ag, Schaffhausen, CH;
Igor Kossaczky, Wuppertal, DE;
Mirko Meuter, Erkrath, DE;
Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen, CH;
Abstract
A computer implemented method to determine ego motion of a vehicle, the vehicle having at least one radar emitter with a plurality of reception antennae, the method including the operations of acquiring, from the reception antennae, different frames of radar data of the vehicle surrounding environment, each frame being acquired at a different time; deriving from the radar data of each different frame, an environment map of the vehicle surrounding environment; and deriving the ego motion of the vehicle by: merging environment maps from at least two different frames into one accumulated map, computing, from the accumulated map, a motion vector for each pixel of the accumulated map, and extracting, from the accumulated map, a mask map including a tensor mapping a weight for each pixel of the accumulated map.