Patents by Inventor Hans-Peter ENGLEHARDT

Hans-Peter ENGLEHARDT 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).

  • Vehicle navigation system for estimating energy consumption of route links
    Patent number: 9784590
    Abstract: A vehicle navigation system having a database configured to store map data. The database includes links corresponding to road segments and attributes associated with the links. The map data includes at least some links associated with a curvature attribute. A mean absolute curvature is stored for the curvature attribute for corresponding links. The mean absolute curvature may be determined from a normalized sum or integral of absolute curvature values along the road segment corresponding to the link. The system includes a processing unit configured to estimate an energy consumption of the vehicle for a link using the curvature attribute retrieved from the database for the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Englehardt, Sebastian Kluge
  • VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160084665
    Abstract: A vehicle navigation system having a database configured to store map data. The database includes links corresponding to road segments and attributes associated with the links. The map data includes at least some links associated with a curvature attribute. A mean absolute curvature (.kappa.) is stored for the curvature attribute for corresponding links. The mean absolute curvature (.kappa.) may be determined from a normalized sum or integral of absolute curvature values along the road segment corresponding to the link. The system includes a processing unit configured to estimate an energy consumption of the vehicle for a link using the curvature attribute retrieved from the database for the link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Peter ENGLEHARDT, Sebastian KLUGE