Patents by Inventor Dimitrios Tzempetzis

Dimitrios Tzempetzis 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: 11801859
    Abstract: A method for operating a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle driven in an at least partially automated manner includes learning a trajectory in a learning mode for driving the vehicle in a first automated manner along the trajectory. Subsequently, the vehicle is driven in the first automated manner along the learnt trajectory in an operating mode following the learning mode. While the vehicle is being driven along the trajectory in the operating mode, at least one transition from a private area to a public area is detected. Additional data, including current traffic data related to driving the vehicle in the public area, is acquired and provided for the driver assistance system. The motor vehicle is driven along the learnt trajectory in a second automated manner in the public area using the additional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Markus Heimberger, Stefanie Prinzhausen
  • Patent number: 11383738
    Abstract: A method for operating a driving assistance system of a motor vehicle includes manoeuvring the motor vehicle autonomously with a driving assistance system while a user with a mobile terminal is located outside the motor vehicle. The user performs, by the driving assistance system and during the manoeuvring, longitudinal guidance and transverse guidance of the motor vehicle. The driving assistance system is operated at a first automation level when communication between the driving assistance system and the mobile terminal is ensured. While the user activates the mobile terminal, the longitudinal guidance, and the transverse guidance in a predetermined fashion, a surrounding area of the motor vehicle is sensed, at the first automation level, by the driving assistance system, and in addition to the longitudinal guidance and the transverse guidance of the motor vehicle. The motor vehicle is then autonomously manoeuvred according to the sensed surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Heimberger, Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Stefanie Prinzhausen
  • Publication number: 20220024475
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for providing a multi-lane scenario driving support for an ego vehicle (10) in a traffic situation. Traffic surroundings are measured by an environment sensor system (14), whereby the traffic surroundings include data about traffic and free space within an ego lane (16) of the ego vehicle (10) and at least an adjacent lane (12a, 12b), and data about front proximity area (18) and rear proximity area (20) of the ego vehicle (10). A decision device (22) evaluates the measured traffic surroundings and decides a driving operation to be executed by the ego vehicle (10) based on at least one strategy. In the decision device (22) a cost function is used for choosing one of at least six strategies, the cost function being based on at least a core priority, whereby the core priority is to avoid collision of the ego vehicle (10) and not cause collision of the ego vehicle (10) with a third party vehicle (24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Ornella Nath, Ivan Surovtcev
  • Publication number: 20210253134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a driving assistance system (2) of a motor vehicle (1), in which the motor vehicle (1) is manoeuvred autonomously by means of the driving assistance system (2) while a user (10) with a mobile terminal (11) is located outside the motor vehicle (1), wherein during the manoeuvring longitudinal guidance and transverse guidance of the motor vehicle (1) are carried out by means of the driving assistance system (2), wherein during the manoeuvring the driving assistance system (2) is operated at a first automation level if communication between the driving assistance system (2) and the mobile terminal (1) is ensured, wherein at the first automation level, in addition to the longitudinal guidance and transverse guidance of the motor vehicle (1), a surrounding area (5) of the motor vehicle (1) is sensed by means of the driving assistance system (2) and the motor vehicle (1) is manoeuvred autonomously in accordance with the sensed surrounding area (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Heimberger, Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Stefanie Prinzhausen
  • Publication number: 20210229695
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a driver assistance system (10), in which a motor vehicle (1) is driven in an at least partially automated fashion, comprising: learning a trajectory (11) for driving the motor vehicle (1) in an automated fashion along the trajectory (11) in a learning mode, and driving the motor vehicle in an automated fashion along the learnt trajectory (11) in an operating mode following the learning mode, detecting at least one transition (12) from a private area (13) to a public area (14) while the motor vehicle (1) is being driven along the trajectory (11) in the operating mode, acquiring additional data relating to the driving of the motor vehicle (1) along the trajectory (11) in the public area (14), wherein the additional data comprise at least current traffic data relating to the driving of the motor vehicle (1) in the public area (14) adjoining the private area (13), and making the additional data available to the driver assistance system (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Markus Heimberger, Stefanie Prinzhausen
  • Patent number: 11052908
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a parking assistance device (2) of a motor vehicle (1), comprising a) learning a parking trajectory (4) between an initial position (5) and a parked position (6) of the motor vehicle (1) by means of a computing unit (3) of the parking assistance device (2) in the case of parking which is controlled by a driver of the motor vehicle (1); b) checking whether the learnt parking trajectory (4) runs over public land (11) or over private land (12) in at least one respective section (13, 14); c) driverless parking of the motor vehicle (1) along the parking trajectory (4) exclusively in a section (14) of the checked parking trajectory (4) which runs over private land (12), in order to increase safety during a parking process which is assisted or carried out by the parking assistance device (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Markus Heimberger, Stefanie Prinzhausen
  • Publication number: 20200254998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a parking assistance device (2) of a motor vehicle (1), comprising a) learning a parking trajectory (4) between an initial position (5) and a parked position (6) of the motor vehicle (1) by means of a computing unit (3) of the parking assistance device (2) in the case of parking which is controlled by a driver of the motor vehicle (1); b) checking whether the learnt parking trajectory (4) runs over public land (11) or over private land (12) in at least one respective section (13, 14); c) driverless parking of the motor vehicle (1) along the parking trajectory (4) exclusively in a section (14) of the checked parking trajectory (4) which runs over private land (12), in order to increase safety during a parking process which is assisted or carried out by the parking assistance device (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Markus Heimberger, Stefanie Prinzhausen