Patents by Inventor Dominik Maeder

Dominik Maeder 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: 8355540
    Abstract: A detector for identifying a road lane boundary using a digitalized optical image of the region in front of the vehicle. The detector includes a correlator configured to select the edges which are to be used for road lane estimation by searching for extreme values of convolution response, and to weight each convolution response by a weighting factor. A histogram analysis unit configured to group the extracted edges into pairs, and to determine a frequency distribution of the distances between two paired edges as a histogram, and to use said frequency distribution to determine the distances between two grouped edges forming a frequency peak or a frequency plateau in the histogram as nominal edge widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: ADC Automotive Distance Controls Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Walter, Wladimir Klein, Dominik Maeder
  • Publication number: 20110081049
    Abstract: A detector for identifying a road lane boundary using a digitalized optical image of the region in front of the vehicle. The detector includes a correlator configured to select the edges which are to be used for road lane estimation by searching for extreme values of convolution response, and to weight each convolution response by a weighting factor. A histogram analysis unit configured to group the extracted edges into pairs, and to determine a frequency distribution of the distances between two paired edges as a histogram, and to use said frequency distribution to determine the distances between two grouped edges forming a frequency peak or a frequency plateau in the histogram as nominal edge widths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: ADC Automotive Distance Conrtol Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Walter, Wladimir klein, Dominik Maeder