Patents by Inventor Berndhard Lucas

Berndhard Lucas 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).

  • Method and device for self-calibration of a radar sensor arrangement
    Patent number: 6975265
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (3, 4, 5, 6), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object (15) are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (direct echo (13, 14)) and to a different individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (cross echo (16)) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (13, 14, 16), at least the position of the target object (15) is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (15), a calibration is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Rainer Moritz, Berndhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Werner Uhler, Dirk Schmidt
  • Method and device for self-calibration of a radar sensor arrangemetn
    Publication number: 20040189514
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (3, 4, 5, 6), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object (15) are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (direct echo (13, 14)) and to a different individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (cross echo (16)) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (13, 14, 16), at least the position of the target object (15) is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (15), a calibration is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Rainer Moritz, Berndhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Werner Uhler, Dirk Schmid