Patents Assigned to VEONEER SWEDEN AB
  • Publication number: 20220349990
    Abstract: A side-shield (310) for a radar transceiver (130), the side-shield (310) including a non-uniform delay structure arranged over an extension plane of the side-shield, the non-uniform delay structure being configured to delay a radar signal (220, 320) propagating through the side-shield (310) by a variable amount in dependence of a wavelength of the radar signal and in dependence of a location on the extension plane, thereby steering and/or diffusing the radar signal (320) after propagation through the side-shield (310).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Walter POIGER, Pascal LORE, Krishnakant Nainwal, Kai YANG, Jonathan MOSS
  • Publication number: 20220340090
    Abstract: A camera arrangement (3) for mounting in a vehicle (1) and including a carrier arrangement (4) configured so as to be attached to the vehicle (1) in order to support a camera housing (6) which carries a camera unit (8). The camera arrangement (3) further including a fan unit (12) with a fan wheel (12a) which is configured for forcing air heated by the camera arrangement (3) into the interior of the vehicle (1), and a fan motor (12b) for operating the fan wheel (12a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Tomas KRÜGER, Fredrik HAGSTRAND
  • Publication number: 20220334461
    Abstract: A vehicle camera module (1) that includes a lens assembly (2) and a printed circuit board; assembly (3) to which an image sensor (4) and associated components are mounted. The lens assembly (2) includes a camera module holder (5) and a camera lens (6), the camera lens (6) having a longitudinal extension (L) and a lens aperture (7), where the camera lens (6) at least partly is housed in the camera module holder (5). The camera module holder (5) includes at least two guide arms (8a, 8b, 8c) that are adapted to extend past corresponding printed circuit board edges (9a, 9b, 9c), the PCB assembly (3) being mounted such that the image sensor (4) faces the camera lens (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: Gustav ALM
  • Publication number: 20220317240
    Abstract: A radio transceiver for communicating with one or more transceiver equipped targets, the transceiver including; a transmitter for transmitting radio signals in a transmit frequency band, wherein the transmitter is arranged to transmit a data signal in case a transceiver equipped target is present and to transmit a dummy signal in case a transceiver equipped target is not present, a receiver for receiving radio signals in a receive frequency band, and a detector for detecting backscattered radio signals in the transmit frequency band, wherein the detector is arranged to estimate a distance to at least one target object based on the backscattered radio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: MATS RYDSTRÖM, HANS HERBERTSSON, OLOF ERIKSSON, JONATHAN MOSS
  • Publication number: 20220281391
    Abstract: A bracket (10) adapted to be mounted to a pane of a motor vehicle having a base part (11) and at least one fixation arrangement (12a, 12b, 12c) configured to fixate a camera carrier (35) carrying at least one camera (14) to the bracket (10). Each of the at least one fixation arrangement (12a, 12b, 12c) includes a holder (13a, 13b, 13c) and a spring element (15) configured to exert an elastic locking force on a pin (19) of the camera carrier (35). The spring element (15) forms a base element (17) configured to be held in said holder (13). The spring element (15) comprises a fixation tongue (16) bendably connected to the base element (17) at one end (23) and adapted to exert said elastic locking force on the pin (19) of the camera carrier (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: MAXIM GRASUN, CATALIN PADURARIU, CATALIN ROTARIU
  • Patent number: 11431958
    Abstract: A vision system (10) for a motor vehicle with a stereo imaging apparatus (11) with imaging devices (12) adapted to capture images from a surrounding of the motor vehicle, and a processing device (14) adapted to process images captured by the imaging devices (12) and to detect objects, and track detected objects over several time frames, in the captured images. The processing device (14) is adapted to obtain an estimated value for the intrinsic yaw error of the imaging devices (12) by solving a set of equations, belonging to one particular detected object (30), using a non-linear equation solver method, where each equation corresponds to one time frame and relates a frame time, a disparity value of the particular detected object, an intrinsic yaw error and a kinematic variable of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Leif Lindgren, Fredrik Medley, Per Knutsson
  • Patent number: 11420569
    Abstract: A light blocking element (5) for an imaging system (1) for a motor vehicle including a bottom section (6), a left wall section and a right wall section (8), the wall sections (8) extending from an opening (12) for reception of a camera lens (4) between the wall sections (8), the wall sections (8) being attached to the bottom section (6) at a first end (9), the wall sections' second end (13) being adapted to be attached to a motor vehicle windshield (2). The wall sections (8) being elastically deformable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Madeleine Persson, Vincent Lingered
  • Patent number: 11391833
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) including a control unit arrangement (8) and at least one radar sensor arrangement (4) arranged to acquire a plurality of measured radar detections (zt, zt+1) at different times. The control unit arrangement (8) engages a tracking algorithm using the present measured radar detections (zt, zt+1) as input. For each track, for each one of a plurality of measured radar detections (zt, zt+1), the control unit arrangement (8) calculates a corresponding predicted detection (xt|t?1|, xt+1|t|) and a corrected predicted detection (xt|t|, xt+1|t+1|), and calculates an innovation vector (19, 19) constituted by a first vector type (18a, ??) and a second vector type (18b, ?r). The control unit arrangement (8) calculates a statistical distribution (24; ?inno,?, ?inno,r) for at least one of the vector types (18a, ??; 18b, ?r) and to determine how it is related to another statistical distribution (25; ?meas,?, ?meas,r); and/or to determine its symmetrical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: Sebastian Marsch
  • Publication number: 20220219620
    Abstract: A camera device (1) that having a light-trap arrangement (2) and a camera housing (3) with a lens assembly (4). When mounted to the camera housing (3), the light-trap arrangement (2) is intended to limit light incoming toward the lens assembly (4), and the camera device (1) is intended to be mounted to a mounting bracket (5) positioned inside a vehicle (6). The camera housing (3) has at least one housing holding part (7A, 8A, 9A, 10A) and the light-trap arrangement includes at least one corresponding light-trap holding part (7B, 8B, 9B, 10B). Corresponding holding parts (7A, 7B; 8A, 8B; 9A, 9B; 10A, 10B) are adapted to be brought into an engaging holding position when the light-trap arrangement (2) is attached to the camera housing (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: MADELEINE PERSSON, MAGNUS STARK, GUSTAV ALM, FREDRIK GREN
  • Publication number: 20220187449
    Abstract: A vehicle environment detection system (3) including a control unit arrangement (8) and at least one sensor arrangement (4) that is arranged to be mounted in an ego vehicle (1) and to provide sensor detections (9, 12) for at least two preceding target vehicles (10, 11). The control unit arrangement (8) is arranged to determine a resulting TTC, time to collision, between the ego vehicle (1) and a closest preceding target vehicle (10), based on an ego velocity (v0) and an ego acceleration (a0) for the ego vehicle (1), a first distance (r1) between the ego vehicle (1) and the closest preceding target vehicle (10), and that target velocity (v1, v2) and corresponding target acceleration (a1, a2) for a preceding target vehicle (10, 11) among the target vehicles (10, 11) that provide a lowest TTC value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: MOROINE LAOUFI, FLORIAN TROMPETER, CHRISTIAN SCHWERT, JEREMY BERNARD
  • Patent number: 11360864
    Abstract: A vehicle safety electronic control system includes a first microcontroller having a lockstep architecture with a lockstep core and a second microcontroller having at least two processing cores. The lockstep core of the first microcontroller is configured to monitor and control outputs of said at least two cores of the second microcontroller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: Norbert Kollmer
  • Publication number: 20220161713
    Abstract: A headlight control system (10) for a motor vehicle including, a controllable headlight (24) adapted to generate variable illumination of the vehicle environment, an imaging apparatus (11) adapted to capture images (100) from a region in front of the motor vehicle, and a data processing device (14) adapted to perform image processing of images (100) captured by the imaging apparatus (11) and to vary the light characteristics of the controllable headlight (24) depending on the image processing. A machine learning model (27) is implemented in the data processing device (14) which is trained to estimate and output an output signal (29) representing a desired illumination of the vehicle environment from one or more images (28) received as input from the imaging apparatus (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: GUSTAV PERSSON, PER CRONVALL
  • Patent number: 11332135
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus for supporting the driving of a vehicle includes: a boundary estimation part for outputting magnetic waves or ultrasonic waves to the periphery of a vehicle, and for estimating the boundary of a roadway based on reflected waves which are detected by a sensor for detecting the reflected waves; a detection part for detecting a mobile body based on the reflected waves which are detected by the sensor; and a region estimation part for estimating a progress region of the object vehicle which is moving in an adjacent lane when this detection part detects the mobile body generated by multiplexed reflections from an object vehicle which is actually moving in the adjacent lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: Ashish Manocha
  • Patent number: 11333754
    Abstract: A vehicle environmental detection system (3) in an ego vehicle (1) and having at least one detector arrangement (4, 7) and at least one control unit arrangement (15) configured to determine a slant angle of parking slots in a parking row. The detector arrangement (4, 7) is adapted to obtain a set of detections (d(k), k=1 . . . K). For each slant angle (?n) in a set of slant angles (?n, n=1 . . . N), the control unit arrangement (15) is adapted to calculate a set of slant rotated detections (dslant(k, ?n), k=1 . . . K) by rotating coordinates of each detection in the set of detections (d(k), k=1 . . . K)) by the present slant angle (?n), calculate a projection profile (Prow(?n)) for the set of slant rotated detections (dslant(k,?n), k=1 . . . K) by determining a histogram of slant rotated detection coordinates, and to calculate an entropy (Hrow(?n)) associated with the calculated projection profile (Prow(?n)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Andreas Schmid, Christopher Unverdorben, Christian Pfaffenzeller, Hendrik Böttcher
  • Patent number: 11327154
    Abstract: A vehicle environment detection system (2) including a control unit (4) and a sensor arrangement (3) that in turn includes at least two sensor arrangement parts (3a, 3b). The control unit (4) is arranged to determine one or more systematic errors in a certain direction (9, 10) for one sensor arrangement part (3a, 3b) by combining acquired sensor data for the sensor arrangement part (3a, 3b) with acquired sensor data from another sensor arrangement part (3b, 3a). The another sensor arrangement part (3b, 3a) has a lower degree of systematic error in the certain direction (9, 10) than the sensor arrangement part (3a, 3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Dominik Kellner, Armin Stangl
  • Publication number: 20220126696
    Abstract: A power supply control system (1) for use in a vehicle, the system including: a first power control arrangement (2) incorporating at least two inputs (3, 4) and at least two outputs (5, 6); and a second power control arrangement (7) incorporating at least two inputs (8, 9) and at least two outputs (10, 11), each power control arrangement (2, 7) being configured to operate in an active mode or an isolated mode. In the active mode, the inputs and outputs of the power control arrangement (2, 7) are connected electrically to one another. In the isolated mode, the inputs and outputs of the power control arrangement (2, 7) are electrically isolated from one another. A selector arrangement (37) is configured to select the operating mode of the power control arrangements (2, 7) so that, at any one time, only one power control arrangement (2, 7) operates in the active mode while the other power control arrangement (2, 7) operates in the isolated mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: JEAN-FRANCOIS JEANNARD
  • Patent number: 11313943
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) having at least one transceiver arrangement (7) arranged to generate, transmit and receive reflected radar signals. The transceiver arrangement (7) includes an ADC arrangement (10) that is arranged to output a digital IF signal (20) in a time domain to a DSP arrangement (12). A first DSP function (12a) is arranged to: identify and retain sample points of the digital IF signal (20) in a spectral domain with signal components that exceed a certain level threshold, such that an approximation signal (36) is formed in the time domain, identify possible sections (37) of the digital IF signal (20) in the time domain that exhibit interference exceeding an interference threshold, determine whether or not to replace such sections (37) with equivalent sections (38) of the approximation signal (36), and if applicable, replace such sections (37) with equivalent sections (38) of the approximation signal (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Jonathan Moss, Andreas LeFevre
  • Patent number: 11307300
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) including at least one transceiver arrangement (7) arranged to generate, transmit and receive reflected radar signals (4, 5) where the transmitted radar signals (4) have been reflected by an object (6 and 8). The radar system (3) is arranged to provide azimuth angle (?) and radial velocity (vr) for a plurality of measurement points (9) at such objects (6 and 8). The radar system (3) is arranged to calculate a difference between a minimum radial velocity (Vmin?, Vmin?) and a maximum radial velocity (Vmax?, Vmax?) for the measurement points (9) for a plurality of azimuth angle intervals, and to select those azimuth angle intervals (??A, ??B) where the difference exceeds a certain threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Dirk Klotzbuecher, Christian Schwert
  • Patent number: 11310947
    Abstract: A camera module (1) for a motor vehicle, in particular for driver monitoring in the passenger compartment, including at least one printed circuit board (2) and a shield for enclosing the printed circuit board (2). The shield includes at least a first shielding part (7) and a second shielding part (10). The first shielding part (7) is a ring shaped part and the second shielding part (10) is a hat shaped part put over, enclosing, and contacting the first shielding part (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Madeleine Persson, Peter Fredriksson, Filip Törnqvist
  • Patent number: 11300660
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system (3) mounted in a host vehicle (1) arranged to run in a forward running direction (D). The vehicle radar system (3) includes a transceiver arrangement (7) to generate and transmit radar signals (4), and to receive reflected radar signals (5), the transmitted radar signals (4) have been reflected by one or more objects (6, 12). The radar system (3) provides range (rn), azimuth angle (?n) and radial velocity (vm) for a plurality of measurement points (9, 9?) at the objects (6, 12). The radar system (3) is divides a total detection volume (8) into at least two partial volumes (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d), and performs a velocity estimation for each partial volume (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d) such that a total velocity distribution (14) is acquired along a side extension (E) that is perpendicular to an extension along the vehicle forward running direction (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Dirk Klotzbuecher, Christian Schwert, Philipp Stark