Patents by Inventor Bernd Kubina

Bernd Kubina 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: 11755032
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a corresponding execution device. The method includes determining a position of a vehicle by a satellite navigation system, establishing a guaranteed position range, where the guaranteed position range describes the geographical region around the actual position of the vehicle, in which the determined position has to be located according to a specified minimum integrity, matching the determined position with an electronically stored road map and corresponding allocation of the position of the vehicle to a road on the road map, where the road map includes information regarding open spaces without a drivable infrastructure as well as an allocation of roads according to road classes, and validating the road class of the allocated road according to the road map on the basis of the guaranteed position range as well as the information contained in the road map regarding open spaces without a drivable infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Robert Bodenheimer, Bernd Kubina, Roland Burghardt
  • Patent number: 11740363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for error evaluation in position determination, comprising time-synchronous recording of first and second position values, wherein the second position values are recorded by a different measuring method than the first position values; forming a first and a second trajectory (A, B) from the first and the second position values respectively; forming differential vectors (D) between first and second position values recorded at the same time; parallel-shifting the second trajectory (B) along a displacement vector (s) such that the amounts of the differential vectors (D) are minimized on average; evaluating the faultiness of the position determination on the basis of one or more amounts of the differential vectors (D) created as a consequence of the parallel shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Bernd Kubina, Roland Burghardt, Robert Bodenheimer
  • Publication number: 20220252735
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for error evaluation in position determination, comprising time-synchronous recording of first and second position values, wherein the second position values are recorded by a different measuring method than the first position values; forming a first and a second trajectory (A, B) from the first and the second position values respectively; forming differential vectors (D) between first and second position values recorded at the same time; parallel-shifting the second trajectory (B) along a displacement vector (s) such that the amounts of the differential vectors (D) are minimized on average; evaluating the faultiness of the position determination on the basis of one or more amounts of the differential vectors (D) created as a consequence of the parallel shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Bernd Kubina, Roland Burghardt, Robert Bodenheimer
  • Publication number: 20220244399
    Abstract: Error and integrity evaluation during a position determination, includes: recording position values (P?N, P?2, P?1) and calculating clock errors of a receiver via time-discrete runtime measurements by a satellite navigation system; recording a first pseudo-distance at a later time via time-discrete runtime measurement by the satellite navigation system; extrapolating a position value (P?0) of the receiver at the later time and extrapolating a clock error of the receiver at the later time; establishing a distance (r?0) between the extrapolated position value (P?0) of the receiver and the position of a satellite (S0) of the satellite navigation system at the later time, wherein a quality measure for the usability of the position determination with the satellite is obtained by forming a second pseudo-distance based on the sum of the established distance (r?0) and the extrapolated clock error at the later time and comparing the second pseudo-distance with the first pseudo-distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Bernd Kubina, Roland Burghardt, Robert Bodenheimer
  • Publication number: 20210294321
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, wherein a check is carried out to determine whether a switch of the driving mode can be safely carried out and a corresponding output is provided, wherein an estimation is made as to whether the road class traversed by the vehicle corresponds to a target road class, including the steps of: ascertaining the position of the vehicle using a satellite navigation system, comparing the ascertained position with a road map, wherein the road map includes an allocation of roads according to road classes, and determining whether a road of the target road class is located in a specified area around the ascertained position on the road map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Robert BODENHEIMER, Bernd KUBINA, Roland BURGHARDT
  • Publication number: 20200393848
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a corresponding execution device. The method includes determining a position of a vehicle by a satellite navigation system, establishing a guaranteed position range, where the guaranteed position range describes the geographical region around the actual position of the vehicle, in which the determined position has to be located according to a specified minimum integrity, matching the determined position with an electronically stored road map and corresponding allocation of the position of the vehicle to a road on the road map, where the road map includes information regarding open spaces without a drivable infrastructure as well as an allocation of roads according to road classes, and validating the road class of the allocated road according to the road map on the basis of the guaranteed position range as well as the information contained in the road map regarding open spaces without a drivable infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Robert Bodenheimer, Bernd Kubina, Roland Burghardt
  • Publication number: 20200132854
    Abstract: A radio receiver for receiving radio signals from at least one position determination system, having a receiving apparatus, and an antenna arrangement. The antenna arrangement has at least one radio signal antenna for receiving radio signals and a first feed element and a second feed element. The first feed element and the second feed element have different polarization-dependent sensitivities. The antenna arrangement has a first radio signal line and a second radio signal line. The first radio signal line is designed to provide a radio signal received by the antenna arrangement as a first radio reception signal. The second radio signal line is designed to provide a further radio signal received by the antenna arrangement as a second radio reception signal. A signal processing apparatus designed to determine a position of the radio receiver on the basis of the first radio reception signal and the second radio reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Bernd Kubina, Sebastian Strunck, Roland Burghardt, Robert Bodenheimer