Patents by Inventor David Alexander BADOUIN
David Alexander BADOUIN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11829957Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a motor vehicle for a service, said motor vehicle having a vehicle guidance system designed for fully automated vehicle guidance and being parked in a parking space in a parking environment, in particular which is blocked for people. The method includes providing a service space outside the parking environment, which has a parking-environment-side access gate and a staff access that can be accessed from outside the parking environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: David Alexander Badouin
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Publication number: 20230227063Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the fully automated guidance of a motor vehicle by a vehicle system in a driving situation of at least one driving situation class, wherein the vehicle system has a control device and accesses position data of a position sensor. The method starts with providing a traffic rule database in which traffic rule sets for a plurality of geographic regions are stored in a machine-readable formal language and which can be accessed by the control device, and determining a geographical region currently traveled by the motor vehicle based on the current position data and retrieving a traffic rule set for the currently traveled geographical region from the traffic rule database via the control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: David Alexander BADOUIN, Mohamed Essayed BOUZOURAA, Oliver HOFFMANN, Aykut BAYKARA, Denny MARX
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Patent number: 11513535Abstract: Method for operating a parking environment with at least one motor vehicle which has a vehicle system which is designed for completely automatic vehicle guidance and is operated autonomously for parking purposes in the parking environment, wherein the parking environment is assigned a motor-vehicle-external control device which is designed to set up a wireless communication link to motor vehicles which are operated autonomously in the parking environment and to coordinate the autonomous operation of the motor vehicles in the parking environment, wherein, when an alarm signal which indicates an alarm state in the parking environment is present, in particular acoustically and/or optically output via display means of the parking environment, alarm information which describes the type of alarm is transmitted, via the or a further wireless communication link, to all the autonomously operated motor vehicles which are located in the parking environment, wherein the vehicle systems of the motor vehicles receiving theType: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: David Alexander Badouin, Christian Feist
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Patent number: 11450208Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for transferring a motor vehicle to an automatic parking system which is designed to transfer the motor vehicle to a free parking space of the parking system without a driver. The parking system transmits a release code (C) to the motor vehicle, said release code being output in the motor vehicle so as to be perceivable to a motor vehicle user. After leaving the motor vehicle, the motor vehicle user transmits the release code to the parking system in order to grant a drive release. As soon as the drive release is granted, the motor vehicle is transferred to the free parking space of the parking system without the driver. The disclosure additionally relates to an automatic parking system and to a motor vehicle for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: David Alexander Badouin, Christian Feist
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Patent number: 11385638Abstract: The disclosure relates to a procedure for operating a safety system for a motor vehicle for driving beyond a system boundary. The motor vehicle moves autonomously within a predetermined area, defined by the system boundary, in an autonomous driving mode from a delivery point to a predetermined position and back to the delivery point. To drive beyond the system boundary, a mechanical blocking device of the safety system is first detected by a detection device of the motor vehicle, the mechanical blocking device forming part of the system boundary. Subsequently, a current driving mode of the motor vehicle is detected. Next, a driving mode message is output by a communication device of the motor vehicle for opening the mechanical blocking device. Finally, the mechanical blocking device is opened when the motor vehicle is in a non-autonomous driving mode according to the driving mode message.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Audi AGInventors: David Alexander Badouin, Kai Uwe Kreher
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Publication number: 20210056517Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a motor vehicle for a service, said motor vehicle having a vehicle guidance system designed for fully automated vehicle guidance and being parked in a parking space in a parking environment, in particular which is blocked for people. The method includes providing a service space outside the parking environment, which has a parking-environment-side access gate and a staff access that can be accessed from outside the parking environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: AUDI AGInventor: David Alexander BADOUIN
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Publication number: 20210027626Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for transferring a motor vehicle to an automatic parking system which is designed to transfer the motor vehicle to a free parking space of the parking system without a driver. The parking system transmits a release code (C) to the motor vehicle, said release code being output in the motor vehicle so as to be perceivable to a motor vehicle user. After leaving the motor vehicle, the motor vehicle user transmits the release code to the parking system in order to grant a drive release. As soon as the drive release is granted, the motor vehicle is transferred to the free parking space of the parking system without the driver. The disclosure additionally relates to an automatic parking system and to a motor vehicle for carrying out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: David Alexander BADOUIN, Christian FEIST
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Publication number: 20190339698Abstract: The disclosure relates to a procedure for operating a safety system for a motor vehicle for driving beyond a system boundary. In an example, the motor vehicle moves autonomously within a predetermined area, which is defined by the system boundary, in an autonomous driving mode from a delivery point to a predetermined position and then from the predetermined position back to the delivery point. To drive beyond the system boundary, a mechanical blocking device of the safety system is first detected by means of a detection device of the motor vehicle, the mechanical blocking device forming part of the system boundary. Subsequently, after detecting the mechanical blocking device, a current driving mode of the motor vehicle is detected. In a further procedure step, a driving mode message is output by a communication device of the motor vehicle for opening the mechanical blocking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2017Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: David Alexander BADOUIN, Kai Uwe KREHER
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Publication number: 20190310657Abstract: Method for operating a parking environment with at least one motor vehicle which has a vehicle system which is designed for completely automatic vehicle guidance and is operated autonomously for parking purposes in the parking environment, wherein the parking environment is assigned a motor-vehicle-external control device which is designed to set up a wireless communication link to motor vehicles which are operated autonomously in the parking environment and to coordinate the autonomous operation of the motor vehicles in the parking environment, wherein, when an alarm signal which indicates an alarm state in the parking environment is present, in particular acoustically and/or optically output via display means of the parking environment, alarm information which describes the type of alarm is transmitted, via the or a further wireless communication link, to all the autonomously operated motor vehicles which are located in the parking environment, wherein the vehicle systems of the motor vehicles receiving theType: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: David Alexander BADOUIN, Christian FEIST
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Patent number: 9866665Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a communication system, comprising the steps: Providing a chip card, in particular a SIM card, in a communication device of a motor vehicle, said chip card including a user identification for dialing into at least one mobile communication network; storing a device identification of a mobile phone in the communication device of the motor vehicle; establishing a mobile communication link between the mobile phone and the communication device of the motor vehicle using the user identification stored on the chip card if a predetermined activation action has been detected on the mobile phone and it has been determined that the device identification of the mobile phone is stored in the communication device of the motor vehicle. The invention furthermore relates to a communication system.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Audi AGInventor: David Alexander Badouin
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Publication number: 20170324854Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a communication system, comprising the steps: Providing a chip card, in particular a SIM card, in a communication device of a motor vehicle, said chip card including a user identification for dialing into at least one mobile communication network; storing a device identification of a mobile phone in the communication device of the motor vehicle; establishing a mobile communication link between the mobile phone and the communication device of the motor vehicle using the user identification stored on the chip card if a predetermined activation action has been detected on the mobile phone and it has been determined that the device identification of the mobile phone is stored in the communication device of the motor vehicle. The invention furthermore relates to a communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: AUDI AGInventor: David Alexander BADOUIN