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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2015
Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Graham Lanier Fletcher, North Augusta, SC (US);
Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A collision avoidance system for a vehicle is disclosed that includes at least one sensor mounted to a vehicle to measure the vehicle's environment in the reverse driving direction, a controller which creates a feature vector based on relationships among data provided by at least one sensor, and a non-volatile memory which stores feature vectors and related object configurations for a number of different environments. The system utilizes a comparison between the current feature vector and previously stored feature vectors to match the current environment with a previously observed environment, and then loads a previously stored object configuration which can improve collision detection performance to reduce the number of unnecessary system interventions.