Patents by Inventor Benjamin DITTES

Benjamin DITTES 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).

  • Patent number: 9524643
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) 10 and an operating method thereof, which work on long time scales, and guide an ego vehicle 20 away from upcoming risks, rather than only reacting to risks to mitigate the consequences of a crash. To this end, information comprising the orientation of other traffic participants 30, 40, 50, 60, a free driving area of the ego vehicle 20, and/or a driving trajectory of the vehicle 20 as intended by the driver is taken into account, in order to determine potential risks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Goerick, Bram Bolder, Benjamin Dittes
  • Patent number: 8593272
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for setting-up and operating a driver assistance system, the method comprising the steps of: visually sensing the environment of a vehicle, sensing at least one rate of change of a parameter representing a status of the car, which parameter can be influenced by a driver manipulating a man/machine interface of the vehicle, structuring information gathered by the visual sensing by classifying the at least one sensed rate of change in different categories, in order to find visual features associated to a certain category of sensed rate of change and thus associated with a certain behavior of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Heracles, Benjamin Dittes
  • Publication number: 20130282268
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) 10 and an operating method thereof, which work on long time scales, and guide an ego vehicle 20 away from upcoming risks, rather than only reacting to risks to mitigate the consequences of a crash. To this end, information comprising the orientation of other traffic participants 30, 40, 50, 60, a free driving area of the ego vehicle 20, and/or a driving trajectory of the vehicle 20 as intended by the driver is taken into account, in order to determine potential risks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Christian GOERICK, Bram BOLDER, Benjamin DITTES
  • Publication number: 20110095879
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for setting-up and operating a driver assistance system, the method comprising the steps of: visually sensing the environment of a vehicle, sensing at least one rate of change of a parameter representing a status of the car, which parameter can be influenced by a driver manipulating a man/machine interface of the vehicle, structuring information gathered by the visual sensing by classifying the at least one sensed rate of change in different categories of e, in order to find visual features associated to a certain category of sensed rate of change and thus associated with a certain behavior of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Martin HERACLES, Benjamin DITTES