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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2003
Applicants:
Hans-dieter Bothe, Seelze, DE;
Hoang Trinh, Hildesheim, DE;
Heiko Freienstein, Hildesheim, DE;
Thomas Engelberg, Hildesheim, DE;
Inventors:
Hans-Dieter Bothe, Seelze, DE;
Hoang Trinh, Hildesheim, DE;
Heiko Freienstein, Hildesheim, DE;
Thomas Engelberg, Hildesheim, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 17/02 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging sensor disposed in a vehicle includes an evaluation unit for monitoring the imaging sensor's operability based on an image signal, for example, by an evaluation of invariant patterns, empirical knowledge about measurement signal profiles, utilizing the redundancy of a network of sensors, or utilizing time-related redundancy.