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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2013
Valeo Schalter Und Sensoren Gmbh, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Markus Kohler, Waldbronn, DE;
Urs Luebbert, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Roland Geiger, Stuttgart, DE;
Stefan Goerner, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Abstract
A method for the output of a warning signal for warning the driver of a motor vehicle about the presence of a vehicle-external target object in a warning region, which is prescribed in relation to the motor vehicle, by means of a driver assistance system of the motor vehicle, in which a radar sensor is used to transmit electromagnetic radar signals into a sensing region of the radar sensor in each of successive measurement cycles of the radar sensor and to receive received signals, the received signals are used for detection of the target object by means of the radar sensor and for tracking said target object in the sensing region over the measurement cycles, and, if the target object enters the prescribed warning region, the warning signal is output by means of an output device.