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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. 13, 2010

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2007
Applicants:

Wolfgang Birk, Gammelstad, SE;

Mattias Erik Brannstrom, Göteborg, SE;

Daniel Levin, Göteborg, SE;

Andreas Eidehall, Göteborg, SE;

Inventors:

Wolfgang Birk, Gammelstad, SE;

Mattias Erik Brannstrom, Göteborg, SE;

Daniel Levin, Göteborg, SE;

Andreas Eidehall, Göteborg, SE;

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An active safety system for a vehicle includes an external object sensor system arranged on a host vehicle. The sensor system designed to sense objects external to the host vehicle and generate input data relating to the objects, wherein the input data includes an object position ((R, ψ)(t)). Additionally, a threat indicator is included to assign a threat level (T(t)) to each external object (k) detected by the sensor system.


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