Patents by Inventor Felix Stahl

Felix Stahl 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).

  • Publication number: 20250148842
    Abstract: A method for detecting a hands-off state at a steering wheel. A steering variable is captured at the steering wheel and the captured steering variable is supplied as input data to at least two trained machine learning models. The machine learning models are trained to detect a hands-off state on the basis of at least the captured steering variable and to output it as output data. The output data are combined in weighted form to form a hands-off state and are provided. The values of the weightings are determined on the basis of a current context. There is also described an apparatus for detecting a hands-off state at a steering wheel, a steering system for a vehicle, and a vehicle with the apparatus for detecting the hands-off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Jonas Kaste, Daniel Münning, Felix Stahl, Felix Kallmeyer
  • Publication number: 20240367599
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for detecting hand contact with a steering wheel of a vehicle, wherein a decision, based on at least detected and/or received status data of a steering system of the vehicle, is made by means of at least one trained machine learning method as to whether at least one hand is in contact with the steering wheel or not, wherein an actuation of at least one control element arranged on the steering wheel is taken into account as an input variable of the at least one trained machine learning method, and wherein a decision signal is generated and provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jonas Kaste, Daniel Münning, Felix Stahl
  • Patent number: 11912283
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for automatically generating labeled steering torque data, with which an artificial intelligence (AI) unit is trained to detect hands-off conditions when the vehicle is being operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Eigel, Felix Stahl
  • Patent number: 11345401
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving hands-off recognition in a vehicle with steering torque-based recognition in that swarm data are provided from vehicles that recognize hands-off situations with hand distance sensors in the steering wheel. Both recognition results over a certain route section are compared and, in the case of deviations, the correctness of the results of the hand distance sensors is assumed. On this basis, route sections are determined in which steering torque-based recognition is unreliable. Based on this recognition, systems with steering torque evaluation can then be re-parameterized in order to be more reliable relative to the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Eigel, Felix Stahl
  • Publication number: 20210070358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving hands-off recognition in a vehicle with steering torque-based recognition in that swarm data are provided from vehicles that recognize hands-off situations with hand distance sensors in the steering wheel. Both recognition results over a certain route section are compared and, in the case of deviations, the correctness of the results of the hand distance sensors is assumed. On this basis, route sections are determined in which steering torque-based recognition is unreliable. Based on this recognition, systems with steering torque evaluation can then be re-parameterized in order to be more reliable relative to the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Eigel, Felix Stahl
  • Publication number: 20210024075
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for automatically generating labeled steering torque data, with which an artificial intelligence (AI) unit is trained to detect hands-off conditions when the vehicle is being operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Eigel, Felix Stahl