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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2005
Nico Kämpchen, Ulm, DE;
Ulrich Lages, Hamburg, DE;
Kay Fürstenberg, Ulm, DE;
Klaus Dietmayer, Ulm, DE;
Nico Kämpchen, Ulm, DE;
Ulrich Lages, Hamburg, DE;
Kay Fürstenberg, Ulm, DE;
Klaus Dietmayer, Ulm, DE;
IBEO Automobile Sensor GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
In a method of recognizing and/or tracking objects which correspond to real objects in at least one sensing zone of at least one sensor for electromagnetic radiation on the basis of images of the sensing zone repeatedly sensed by means of the sensor, succeeding images are evaluated in succeeding cycles and a search is made for at least one respective object found in a cycle on the basis of a corresponding image in a correspondingly later image in a later cycle to track the object. At least one part of an earlier image and/or at least one indication with respect to an earlier state of the object or of a real object corresponding to it, which is determined using a corresponding earlier image in the current cycle, is associated with at least one part of a current image determined in the current cycle or with an object recognized in the current cycle during at least one current cycle on the basis of the results of an at least preliminary evaluation of a current image.