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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014

Filed:

May. 09, 2008
Applicants:

Jens Faenger, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andreas Kynast, Stuttgart, DE;

Inventors:

Jens Faenger, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andreas Kynast, Stuttgart, DE;

Assignee:

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3647 (2013.01); G01C 21/3635 (2013.01);
Abstract

A navigation system for motor vehicles includes at least one display device for a pictorial representation of the vehicle surroundings, at least one data memory containing data that allow for a three-dimensional reconstruction of the vehicle surroundings, at least one camera capable of recording digital images of the vehicle surroundings, and at least one data processing unit, which is capable of generating a reconstruction of the vehicle surroundings representable on the display device from the data contained in the data memory, and which is capable of performing an at least partial integration of the digital images recorded by the camera into the reconstruction of the vehicle surroundings, which reconstruction is based on the data contained in the data memory.


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