Patents by Inventor Folko Flehmig
Folko Flehmig 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).
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Publication number: 20230294717Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method comprising the following steps: receiving sensor data which have been generated by a sensor system, in a control module of a vehicle computer; inputting the sensor data into a safety algorithm to detect safety-relevant objects; inputting the sensor data into a comfort algorithm to detect comfort-relevant objects; estimating future states of the objects using an environment model which represents the environment of the vehicle and in which the objects are stored and tracked over time; calculating a safety trajectory taking into account safety rules and a comfort trajectory taking into account comfort rules based on the estimated future states of the detected objects; using the comfort trajectory to control the vehicle if the comfort trajectory satisfies the safety rules; and using the safety trajectory to control the vehicle if the comfort trajectory does not satisfy the safety rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Peter Sautter, Georg Mayer, Ulrich Kersken, Folko Flehmig, Christian Connette
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Patent number: 11383730Abstract: A method for assisting a driver during the deactivation of a highly automated driving mode of a vehicle. In this context, a takeover signal, which represents a takeover of control of the vehicle by the driver, and auxiliary information are read in. The auxiliary information includes image information representing the driver and/or vehicle-control information representing a control of the vehicle by the driver. In a further step, a degree of attentiveness of the driver is determined, using the takeover signal and the auxiliary information. Finally, using the degree of attentiveness, an assistance signal is output to assist the driver during the takeover of control, by activating at least one driver-assistance function of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Claus Marberger, Folko Flehmig, Johannes Foltin, Peter Sautter, Sybille Eisele, Tjark Vandommele, Felix Wulf
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Publication number: 20200039535Abstract: A method for assisting a driver during the deactivation of a highly automated driving mode of a vehicle. In this context, a takeover signal, which represents a takeover of control of the vehicle by the driver, and auxiliary information are read in. The auxiliary information includes image information representing the driver and/or vehicle-control information representing a control of the vehicle by the driver. In a further step, a degree of attentiveness of the driver is determined, using the takeover signal and the auxiliary information. Finally, using the degree of attentiveness, an assistance signal is output to assist the driver during the takeover of control, by activating at least one driver-assistance function of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Claus Marberger, Folko Flehmig, Johannes Foltin, Peter Sautter, Sybille Eisele, Tjark Vandommele, Felix Wulf
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Patent number: 10427674Abstract: An evasion and brake-assist system for motor vehicles, having a sensory system for sensing the traffic environment of the vehicle, an actuator system for interventions in a steering system and a brake system of the vehicle, and having an electronic control device in which an emergency evasion function is implemented that checks whether an emergency evasive maneuver is necessary based on the data supplied by the sensory system and then acts on the dynamics of the vehicle via the actuator system to assist the vehicle driver in initiating and/or executing the emergency evasive maneuver, characterized in that in the first phase of an evasive maneuver, the emergency evasion function intervenes exclusively in the transverse dynamics, and only after this phase, decides whether an intervention in the longitudinal dynamics will also take place.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Christian Braeuchle
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Patent number: 10127815Abstract: A method for setting up a movement model of a road user includes reading in a current movement vector of the road user, averaging movement vectors read in over of period of time to obtain a characteristic movement value of the road user for the period of time, and ascertaining a movement model using the movement value.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Alberto Ranninger Hernandez, Christian Braeuchle, Folko Flehmig, Miguel Angel Granda Trigo, Roland Galbas, Felipe Fernandez Hernandez
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Publication number: 20170309178Abstract: A method for setting up a movement model of a road user includes reading in a current movement vector of the road user, averaging movement vectors read in over of period of time to obtain a characteristic movement value of the road user for the period of time, and ascertaining a movement model using the movement value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Alberto Ranninger Hernandez, Christian Braeuchle, Folko Flehmig, Miguel Angel Granda Trigo, Roland Galbas, Felipe Fernandez Hernandez
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Publication number: 20170287332Abstract: A method for monitoring a traffic space, the method including a step for reading in, a step for ascertaining, a step for comparing, and a step for supplying. In the step of reading in, an item of positional information and/or a movement vector of a rod user within the traffic space is/are read in. In the step of ascertaining, a future position of the road user within the traffic space is ascertained using the item of positional information and/or the movement vector. In the step of comparing, the future position is compared with an item of risk information. The item of risk information represents at least one dangerous area of the traffic space. In the step of supplying, a warning signal is supplied on the basis of a result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Alberto Ranninger Hernandez, Felipe Fernandez Hernandez, Folko Flehmig, Miguel Angel Granda Trigo, Roland Galbas
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Patent number: 9734719Abstract: A method for guiding a vehicle in the surrounding environment of an object. The method includes reading in a multiplicity of view ray endpoints in a three-dimensional image, produced by a stereo camera of the vehicle, of a surrounding environment, containing the object, of the vehicle, at least one of the view ray endpoints representing an outer surface of the object, connecting the multiplicity of view ray endpoints to form a polygon that represents a free surface to be traveled by the vehicle, and generating a driving corridor, provided for the vehicle, for driving around the object, based on the free surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Thomas Gussner, Yuefeng Ma
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Publication number: 20170169704Abstract: A method is described for triggering pedestrian protection means and/or pedestrian warning means for a vehicle, in which objects in a surrounding area of the vehicle are detected, pedestrians are identified from the detected objects, a situation is analyzed as a function of the detected objects and a model assumption, the pedestrian protection means or pedestrian warning means are triggered as a function of the situation analysis, features of the identified pedestrians are ascertained, and the model assumption is selected or set up as a function of the ascertained features.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Folko Flehmig, Johannes Ruenz, Michael Schulz, Roland Galbas, Volker Hofsaess
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Patent number: 9528842Abstract: A method is provided for ascertaining a source of danger on a travel route, during the travel of a vehicle along the travel route, a vehicle parameter being measured and compared to a vehicle parameter threshold value; as a function of the comparison, danger data including the measured vehicle parameter and a vehicle location assigned to the measurement being formed for the information that a danger source has been formed at the vehicle location assigned to the measurement. A corresponding device as well as a corresponding computer program are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Christian Braeuchle, Michael Knoop, Folko Flehmig
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Patent number: 9475501Abstract: In a method for ascertaining the stress level of the driver, the setpoint trajectory of the vehicle is ascertained and compared to the actual trajectory. A higher stress level is inferred from an increasing frequency and/or magnitude of the deviation of the actual trajectory from the setpoint trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Claus Marberger, Thomas Gussner
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Patent number: 9428219Abstract: A method for assisting a vehicle driver in a bottleneck, including the tasks of reading in, evaluating, and providing. In the reading in, a piece of information about a negotiable corridor in the bottleneck, a piece of information about an instantaneous trajectory of the vehicle in the bottleneck, and a piece of information about a steering torque which is presently applied by the driver to a steering of the vehicle are read in. In the evaluating, the pieces of information about the corridor, the trajectory, and the steering torque are evaluated by using known dimensions of the vehicle to recognize an anticipated violation of the corridor by at least one part of the vehicle. In the providing, a control signal is provided for a counter torque which acts against the steering torque when the violation is recognized to assist the driver with avoiding the violation.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Yuefeng Ma
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Publication number: 20160159327Abstract: An evasion and brake-assist system for motor vehicles, having a sensory system for sensing the traffic environment of the vehicle, an actuator system for interventions in a steering system and a brake system of the vehicle, and having an electronic control device in which an emergency evasion function is implemented that checks whether an emergency evasive maneuver is necessary based on the data supplied by the sensory system and then acts on the dynamics of the vehicle via the actuator system to assist the vehicle driver in initiating and/or executing the emergency evasive maneuver, characterized in that in the first phase of an evasive maneuver, the emergency evasion function intervenes exclusively in the transverse dynamics, and only after this phase, decides whether an intervention in the longitudinal dynamics will also take place.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Folko Flehmig, Christian Braeuchle
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Patent number: 9296383Abstract: A method for determining a driving maneuver for a motor vehicle includes the steps of ascertaining an imminent accident with an external object, ascertaining characteristic variables for accident damages in different driving maneuvers and determining the driving maneuver whose characteristic variable is indicative of the least accident damage.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Christian Braeuchle
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Patent number: 9229904Abstract: A diagnostic method for a vehicle component of a vehicle, an operating parameter of the vehicle component being detected during an operation of the vehicle and a status message corresponding to a status of the vehicle component being transmitted to a vehicle-external server as a function of the detected operating parameter for an analysis of the status message, a message based on the analysis of the status message being transmitted to a receiving device. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding diagnostic device, a corresponding diagnostic system, as well as a computer program is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Michael Knoop, Martin Rous, Folko Flehmig
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Publication number: 20150185036Abstract: A method is provided for ascertaining a source of danger on a travel route, during the travel of a vehicle along the travel route, a vehicle parameter being measured and compared to a vehicle parameter threshold value; as a function of the comparison, danger data including the measured vehicle parameter and a vehicle location assigned to the measurement being formed for the information that a danger source has been formed at the vehicle location assigned to the measurement. A corresponding device as well as a corresponding computer program are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Christian Braeuchle, Michael Knoop, Folko Flehmig
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Publication number: 20150175169Abstract: In a method for ascertaining the stress level of the driver, the setpoint trajectory of the vehicle is ascertained and compared to the actual trajectory. A higher stress level is inferred from an increasing frequency and/or magnitude of the deviation of the actual trajectory from the setpoint trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Folko FLEHMIG, Claus MARBERGER, Thomas GUSSNER
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Publication number: 20150142207Abstract: In a method for operating a driver assistance device for supporting lane changes and/or passing maneuvers of a motor vehicle, route information of motor vehicles participating in a traffic situation is acquired; a target trajectory for a possible lane change or a possible passing maneuver, as well as at least one variable of the motor vehicle for reaching the target trajectory, are determined; a cost function is determined for the target trajectory and for the at least one variable; and the cost function is minimized in order to obtain a trajectory that is optimized with respect to costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Udo Schulz
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Publication number: 20150012182Abstract: A method for assisting a vehicle driver in a bottleneck, including the tasks of reading in, evaluating, and providing. In the reading in, a piece of information about a negotiable corridor in the bottleneck, a piece of information about an instantaneous trajectory of the vehicle in the bottleneck, and a piece of information about a steering torque which is presently applied by the driver to a steering of the vehicle are read in. In the evaluating, the pieces of information about the corridor, the trajectory, and the steering torque are evaluated by using known dimensions of the vehicle to recognize an anticipated violation of the corridor by at least one part of the vehicle. In the providing, a control signal is provided for a counter torque which acts against the steering torque when the violation is recognized to assist the driver with avoiding the violation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Folko Flehmig, Yuefeng Ma
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Publication number: 20140379167Abstract: A method for determining a driving maneuver for a motor vehicle includes the steps of ascertaining an imminent accident with an external object, ascertaining characteristic variables for accident damages in different driving maneuvers and determining the driving maneuver whose characteristic variable is indicative of the least accident damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Folko FLEHMIG, Christian BRAEUCHLE