Detection of a hazardous situation in road traffic
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorHarald Altinger
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for detecting a hazardous situation in road traffic, wherein visible surroundings of a motor vehicle are scanned by way of at least one surroundings monitoring sensor for the presence of a trigger. Upon detection of the trigger, data regarding the surroundings of the motor vehicle is collected by the at least one surroundings monitoring sensor in a trigger-specific radius around the trigger. Pieces of information based on the collected data are transmitted via a communication device to at least one receiver that is independent of the motor vehicle.
Claims21
A method for detecting a hazardous situation in road traffic, the method comprising:
- receiving a list of one or more predetermined triggers;
- scanning, by at least one surroundings monitor sensor, surroundings of a motor vehicle;
- detecting, by the at least one surroundings monitor sensor, a trigger based on the list, wherein the trigger matches at least one of the one or more predetermined triggers;
- searching, by the at least one surroundings monitor sensor, in response to the detecting the trigger, for at least one hazardous object that is different from the trigger within a trigger-specific radius around the trigger;
- locating, by the at least one surroundings monitor sensor, the at least one hazardous object;
- collecting, by the at least one surroundings monitoring sensor, upon the locating the at least one hazardous object, object-specific data regarding the at least one hazardous object;
- and
- transmitting, by a communication device communicatively coupled to the at least one surroundings monitoring sensor, pieces of information based on the object-specific data to at least one receiver that is independent of the motor vehicle.
A system, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- receive a list of one or more predetermined triggers;
- scan surroundings of a motor vehicle;
- detect a trigger based on the list, wherein the trigger matches at least one of the one or more predetermined triggers;
- search, in response to detection of the trigger, for at least one hazardous object that is different from the trigger within a trigger-specific radius around the trigger;
- locate the at least one hazardous object;
- collect, upon the locating the at least one hazardous object, object-specific data regarding the at least one hazardous object;
- and
- transmit pieces of information based on the object-specific data to at least one receiver that is independent of the motor vehicle.
A tangible computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a list of one or more predetermined triggers;
- scanning surroundings of a motor vehicle;
- detecting a trigger based on the list, wherein the trigger matches at least one of the one or more predetermined triggers;
- searching, in response to the detecting the trigger, for at least one hazardous object that is different from the trigger within a trigger-specific radius around the trigger;
- locating the at least one hazardous object;
- collecting, upon the locating the at least one hazardous object, object-specific data regarding the at least one hazardous object;
- and
- transmitting pieces of information based on the object-specific data to at least one receiver that is independent of the motor vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.