Method and system for detecting non-visible vehicles
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsGuillaume Tournabien, Cyril Roumier
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Abstract
A method for detecting non-visible vehicles in a vehicle's environment, wherein each vehicle is equipped with at least one proximity sensor, the method comprising for a driven vehicle the steps of: screening, by a receiver of the proximity sensor, any incoming proximity signal capable of propagating through the air along a non-linear path; Receiving an incoming proximity signal coming from a non-visible vehicle (B); processing the received proximity signal to detect the non-visible vehicle; and warning a driver and/or an advanced driver-assistance system about the detected non-visible vehicle.
Claims20
A method for detecting at least one non-visible vehicle in an environment of a vehicle, wherein each of the vehicle and the at least one non-visible vehicle is equipped with at least one proximity sensor including an emitter that emits a proximity signal and a receiver, the method comprising:
- operating the receiver of the proximity sensor of the vehicle in a listening mode during a time when the emitter is not emitting any proximity signal;
- determining that the receiver of the proximity sensor of the vehicle received an incoming proximity signal that was emitted by the proximity sensor of the at least one non-visible vehicle while operating in the listening mode;
- processing the received proximity signal that was emitted by the proximity sensor of the at least one non-visible vehicle to detect the at least one non-visible vehicle;
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- providing an indication about the detected non-visible vehicle to at least one of a driver of the vehicle and an advanced driver-assistance system of the vehicle.
An advanced driver assistance system for detecting at least one non-visible vehicle in an environment of a vehicle, the system comprising:
- at least one proximity sensor on the vehicle including
- an emitter for emitting a proximity signal, and
- a receiver configured to operate in a listening mode while the emitter is not emitting any proximity signal;
- a processor configured to process any proximity signal received by the receiver and configured to detect the at least one other non-visible vehicle based on processing at least one received proximity signal that was emitted by the proximity sensor of the at least one non-visible vehicle and received by the receiver while operating in the listening mode;
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- an indicator configured to provide an indication of the detected non-visible vehicle.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions that are executable by at least one computing device to cause the at least one computing device to
- process a received proximity signal that is received by a proximity sensor on a vehicle operating in a listening mode while an emitter of the proximity sensor is not emitting any proximity signal, the received proximity signal having been emitted by an emitter of at least one proximity sensor on at least one non-visible vehicle, the proximity signal being capable of propagating through the air along a non-linear path;
- detect the at least one non-visible vehicle based on the received proximity signal;
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- provide an indication of the detected at least one non-visible vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.