US 11,021,106 B2Granted

Vehicle, side mirror assembly for a vehicle, and methods thereof

AssigneeIntel Corporation

InventorDaniel Pohl

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Abstract

According to various aspects, a vehicle may include: an external structure; an assembly configured to allow a movement of at least a part of the assembly relative to the external structure at least from a first position to a second position, wherein the assembly protrudes from the external structure with a first distance in the first position and with a second distance less than the first distance in the second position; one or more sensors configured to receive obstacle information associated with one or more obstacles in a vicinity of the vehicle; one or more processors configured to determine a collision threat to the assembly based on the obstacle information, and trigger the movement of at least the part of the assembly from the first position into the second position in the case that the collision threat is determined.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A collision avoidance device for a vehicle the collision avoidance device comprising:

an assembly comprising an attachment structure configured to attach the assembly to an external structure of the vehicle,
wherein the attachment structure is further configured to allow a movement of a part of the assembly from a first position to a second position,
wherein the assembly is configured to protrude from the external structure to a first distance in the first position,
wherein the assembly is further configured to protrude from the external structure to a second distance in the second position, and
wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance;
one or more sensors configured to generate obstacle information associated with an obstacle in a vicinity of the vehicle;
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one or more processors configured to:
determine a lateral distance component of a distance to the obstacle based on the obstacle information,
wherein the lateral distance component is defined in a lateral direction parallel to a lateral axis associated with a lateral width of the vehicle,
determine a longitudinal distance component of the distance to the obstacle based on the obstacle information,
wherein the longitudinal distance component is defined in a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal axis associated with a forward-driving direction of the vehicle,
determine a collision threat to the assembly based on a first comparison between the lateral distance component and a predetermined lateral safety distance, and further based on a second comparison between the longitudinal distance component and a predetermined longitudinal safety distance, and
trigger the movement of the part of the assembly from the first position to the second position based on the collision threat to the assembly being determined.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/939,365Filed 29 Mar 2018
Published: US 2019/0047473 A114 Feb 2019
Granted: 1 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B60R 1/074
By electrically powered actuators: for retracting the mirror arrangements to a non-use position alongside the vehicle
B60R 1/12
Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or…:…
G08G 1/16
Traffic control systems for road vehicles: anti-collision systems
G08G 1/165
Anti-collision systems: for passive traffic, e.g. including static obstacles, trees