Patents Assigned to CONTINENTAL
  • Patent number: 11966069
    Abstract: A display including a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel, with a light guide with edge coupling, wherein the backlight is designed so the light intensity of the backlight is lower in a peripheral region of the display panel than in a central region of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Bäthis, Oliver Jakoby, Andreas Brüninghaus, Jochen Möller
  • Patent number: 11965969
    Abstract: An optically and aerodynamically optimized and particularly wind-insensitive cleaning apparatus for cleaning a surface of a sensor apparatus of a vehicle with a fluid cleaning agent. The surface is surrounded by an outer surface region with respect to which the surface is arranged so as to be substantially flush therewith or curved in a domed manner above it, and, in relation to the outer surface region, the nozzle is positioned in a recessed manner such that the spraying of the cleaning agent is realized below the outer surface region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Hahn, Dirk Ringler
  • Patent number: 11964640
    Abstract: A method for operating a brake system having a brake fluid reservoir having a first and a second reservoir chamber which are separated by a first partition wall, wherein a first filling level in the brake fluid reservoir is determined by a first sensor element, and a second filling level in the brake fluid reservoir is determined by a second sensor element, wherein the brake system is operated in a first fallback operating mode when the determined first filling level in the brake fluid reservoir falls below a first predetermined level (p1), and wherein the brake system is operated in a second fallback operating mode when the determined second filling level in the brake fluid reservoir falls below a second predetermined level (p2), wherein the second level (p2) is lower than the first level (p1), and to a brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Harald Biller
  • Patent number: 11964512
    Abstract: A utility vehicle tire having a tread with at least two circumferential channels (3), which are formed to a profile depth (T) and which separate central profile positives (1) and shoulder-side profile positives (2) from one another, the circumferential channels (3) having channel flanks (5a, 5b) toward the central profile positives (1) and the shoulder-side profile positives (2) having shoulder flanks (6) running toward the side wall. The channels have depressions delimited by a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Kristen, Alexander Wuest
  • Publication number: 20240125362
    Abstract: A pulsation damper for damping pressure medium vibrations in a hydraulic system, has a membrane within a bore of a housing, which membrane is exposed to the pressure medium on its one side and faces a gas-filled cavity inside the housing on its other side, the bore of which is closed by means of a plug. The membrane, in conjunction with the plug and a hollow-cylindrical support body, forms an independently handleable, functionally pre-testable assembly, for which purpose the membrane is substantially cup-shaped, and the support body extends into it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Uwe Greiff, Volker Grings, Axel Hinz, Christoph Wagner, Stefan Schmitt, Petra Fischbach-Borazio
  • Publication number: 20240126118
    Abstract: A display system comprises a display, configured for displaying data, wherein the display comprises an inactive display edge not configured for displaying, and an active display inner surface configured for displaying. The display system further comprises a backlighting module having luminous units, wherein the backlighting module is arranged directly or indirectly at a rear side of the display, such that the light emitted by the luminous units forms a backlight for the display. The backlighting module comprises a backlighting edge corresponding to the display edge and comprises a backlighting inner surface corresponding to the display inner surface. The display system further comprises and a control system for driving the luminous units. A vehicle comprising a display system and a method for operating a display system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Lahr, Ulrich Kabatek, Markus Weber, Steffen Wildner
  • Publication number: 20240127585
    Abstract: A method for determining an encoder architecture of a convolutional neural network configured to process image processing tasks. For each image processing task), characteristic scale distribution is calculated based on training data. Encoder architecture candidates are generated, each including a shared encoder layer providing computational operations for image processing tasks and branches which span over encoder layers providing at least partly different computational operations for the image processing tasks. Each branch is associated with a certain image processing task. Receptive encoder layer field sizes and assessment measures are calculated, each assessment measure referring to a combination of a certain encoder architecture and a certain image processing task, and including information regarding matching quality of characteristic scale distribution associated with the assessment measure to the receptive field sizes of the encoder layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
    Inventors: David Ivan, Regina Deak-Meszlenyi, Csaba Nemes
  • Publication number: 20240127477
    Abstract: A method and system for pose estimation includes receiving at least one image frame captured by an imaging device, wherein the imaging device is arranged to image at least one subject; determining one or more candidate positions for each of a plurality of human keypoints, wherein each candidate position is associated with a likelihood that a human keypoint is located at such position; generating one or more combinations of human keypoints based on the determined one or more candidate positions; and determining a pose of each of the at least one subject based at least on the one or more generated combinations of human keypoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Roozbeh Sanaei, Matthias Horst Meier, Mithun Das, Lei Li, VunPin Wong, Saptak Sanyal
  • Patent number: 11958418
    Abstract: A camera arm device for a mirror replacement system for a motor vehicle having a boom element, which has at least one camera (30) of the mirror replacement system is provided. A. housing, which cooperates with an end portion of the boom element in order to hold the boom element. There is arranged in the housing a guide groove through which the boom element extends and along which the boom element is movably mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Lukas Pape
  • Patent number: 11959957
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device (1) for measuring at least one parameter of a motor vehicle, the device (1) comprising at least one reference resistor (R0) of a predetermined value and at least two measuring branches (K1, K2), each of the two measuring branches comprising at least a first element comprising a resistor (R0) or a resistive sensor (R2), capable of being connected to a voltage supply (Vcc), and a second element comprising a resistor or a resistive sensor (R1, R3) capable of being connected to earth (M), the first element and the second element being connected together at a mid-point (A, B), the mid-points (A, B) of the at least two measuring branches (K1, K2) being connected together in pairs by a third element comprising a resistor or a resistive sensor (R4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Laurent Grellat, Mathieu Fiquet, Laurent Vaysset
  • Publication number: 20240119911
    Abstract: A method of providing full array local dimming to a display comprises performing an image processing algorithm with a processor having instructions for: determining a new pixel value for each of a plurality of pixels of the image, mapping the new pixel value to a prior pixel value for each of the plurality of pixels, scaling the image of the zone bilinearly, repeating the determining mapping and scaling until an approximation value is reached, compiling the repeated results into a data set. The method also includes dividing an image for the display having into a plurality of zones each having at least one LED associate therewith and making an illumination decision from the data set, where the illumination decision is for the at least one LED associated with one of the plurality of zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Cashen, Sebastian Wolfarth, Ulrich Kabatek, Thomas Knieps, Rodrigo Ramos Cruz
  • Publication number: 20240116316
    Abstract: A two-wheeled vehicle pneumatic tire having a tread, a tire carcass, tire sidewalls, and two bead regions with a bead protective strip. The tire carcass is formed from a first carcass inlay and a second carcass inlay. The second carcass inlay is arranged radially inwardly of the first carcass inlay, and extends from a crown region (17) of the two-wheeled vehicle pneumatic tire and terminates at a second carcass inlay end under the bead protective strip. The two-wheeled vehicle pneumatic tire provides improved puncture protection whilst maintaining good rolling resistance. This is achieved in that the first carcass inlay is guided with a first carcass inlay turn-up over the particular tire sidewall as far as under the tread to a first carcass inlay end, and terminates there at the first carcass inlay end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Lengemann, Andre Schmidt, Jan-Niklas Voss
  • Publication number: 20240119830
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for predicting a future position of road users in a predefined road section, including a storage unit in which at least historical sensor data relating to captured road users in the predefined road section are stored. A processor is provided and extracts the historical movement data relating to the respective road users from the historical sensor data and is further designed to learn a sufficiently accurate high-definition map of the predefined road section by means of a machine learning method based on the historical movement data. The processor is further designed to determine, based on an input of current movement data relating to a road user, a prediction of at least one future position of this road user in this road section, at least implicitly using the learned high-definition map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Senninger, Matthias Wagner
  • Publication number: 20240118396
    Abstract: A vehicular ladar system includes a ladar sensor with a light source configured to generate modulated light. The ladar may be configured to illuminate in one flash the entire scene in the field of view, or may include a scanning mechanism configured to intercept the light generated by the light source and selectively direct the light into a portion of the field of view. A receiving lens assembly receives light reflected off an object in the field of view. A plurality of quantum dot photodiodes are arranged in an array. Each photodiode is configured to receive light from the receiving lens assembly. A readout circuit and a bias circuit are electrically connected to each photodiode. A number of quantum dot film densification methods and apparatus are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick B. Gilliland
  • Publication number: 20240119841
    Abstract: An alert system for warning road users in a road section. A receiver unit receives movement data of detected road users (DRUs) in relation to the road section. A memory unit has prediction modules with decreasing prediction qualities. A first prediction module makes at least one DRU position prediction if first conditions are satisfied. The second prediction module makes at least one DRU position prediction if the first conditions are not satisfied and second conditions are satisfied. The third prediction module makes at least one DRU position prediction if the first and second conditions are not satisfied. A test module tests whether the first, second, or third conditions are satisfied in relation to the road section and the DRU and selects the prediction module with the highest prediction quality with a satisfied condition. A processor predicts at least a future position of the DRUs using the selected prediction module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Senninger, Miroslaw Robakowski
  • Patent number: 11953716
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a spacer for an assembly of a backlight of a display. The disclosure additionally relates to an assembly for a backlight of a display having such a spacer, and to a display having a backlight having such an assembly. The spacer comprises at least one crosspiece. The crosspiece in this case has attachment surfaces for attachment of a first light guide and a second light guide and a receptacle for a sheet stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Sait Kalender, Jörg Thomas, Oliver Jakoby, Nils Arnold
  • Patent number: 11955724
    Abstract: A remote signal communication system includes a first antenna that transmits first frequency bands and a second antenna that transmits second frequency bands that are higher than the first frequency bands. A first dual matching network is provided for the first frequency bands and a second dual matching network is provided for the second frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hazael Alejandro Mendoza-Tellez, Jesus Enrique Saavedra Balbi, Eric Ponce
  • Patent number: 11952494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, to the vulcanizate thereof, and to a vehicle tire. The rubber mixture according to the invention comprises at least the following constituents: at least one diene rubber; and, at least one char (HTC char) obtained by hydrothermal carbonization of at least one starting substance. A vehicle tire according to the invention comprises at least one vulcanizate according to the invention of the rubber mixture in at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Hojdis, Carla Recker, Michael Wark, Hendrik Multhaupt
  • Patent number: 11953551
    Abstract: A module for initializing and calibrating a product during the manufacture of the product in a manufacturing environment, wherein the module is able to be arranged on the product and wherein the module has a first interface for wireless data transmission between the module and the manufacturing environment, a second interface for establishing a data connection between the module and the product, an electrical energy source and a data processing unit. The module is designed to supply the product at least temporarily with energy by way of the energy source, to establish a data connection with the product via the second interface, to perform test and/or calibration routines on the product via the second interface, wherein the data processing unit generates test and/or calibration data during the performance of the test and/or calibration routines, and to transmit the test and/or calibration data to the manufacturing environment via the first interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Eduardo Lopez Arce Vivas, Manuel Deppner, Matthew Leo Grilliot
  • Patent number: D1021760
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Nico Meier