Patents by Inventor Harald Feifel

Harald Feifel 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: 11753048
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for controlling a brake, a steering and/or a drive of an autonomous or automated vehicle. This involves an artificial-intelligence-based first control apparatus being monitored by virtue of a criticality of a driving situation being determined on the basis of simple calculation values, wherein a specific criticality of the driving situation, or an inappropriate reaction by the first control apparatus to the driving situation, can result in changeover to a second control apparatus that undertakes the control of the vehicle on the basis of a deterministic calculation rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Harald Feifel, Michael Wagner, Sighard Schraebler
  • Publication number: 20220292975
    Abstract: Upon initiating an automated parking space search and/or an at least partly automated parking process, an ego vehicle automatically provides information on at least its current position, initiation of the automated parking space search and/or a parking process, including a parking safety zone that it requires for parking, to other road users in the surroundings of the ego vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yongjiang Sun, Attila Jaeger, Timo Hamm, Amin Jeribi, Harald Feifel
  • Publication number: 20220032965
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for controlling a brake, a steering and/or a drive of an autonomous or automated vehicle. This involves an artificial-intelligence-based first control apparatus being monitored by virtue of a criticality of a driving situation being determined on the basis of simple calculation values, wherein a specific criticality of the driving situation, or an inappropriate reaction by the first control apparatus to the driving situation, can result in changeover to a second control apparatus that undertakes the control of the vehicle on the basis of a deterministic calculation rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Harald FEIFEL, Michael WAGNER, Sighard SCHRAEBLER
  • Patent number: 10741077
    Abstract: A vehicle warning device for outputting a vehicle warning signal to a first vehicle. The vehicle warning signal displays, prior to the entry of the first vehicle into a danger area, whether a second vehicle located ahead of the first vehicle is located directly behind this danger area, including a first communication interface configured to receive first data. The first data relate to a movement condition of the first vehicle. A second communication interface receives second data from the second vehicle. The second data relate to a movement condition of the second vehicle. A processing device determines, based on the first and second data, a future position of the second vehicle at a predicted time at which the first vehicle is located within the danger area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Harald Feifel, Attila Jaeger
  • Publication number: 20200066157
    Abstract: A vehicle warning device for outputting a vehicle warning signal to a first vehicle. The vehicle warning signal displays, prior to the entry of the first vehicle into a danger area, whether a second vehicle located ahead of the first vehicle is located directly behind this danger area, including a first communication interface configured to receive first data. The first data relate to a movement condition of the first vehicle. A second communication interface receives second data from the second vehicle. The second data relate to a movement condition of the second vehicle. A processing device determines, based on the first and second data, a future position of the second vehicle at a predicted time at which the first vehicle is located within the danger area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Harald Feifel, Attila Jaeger
  • Patent number: 10131359
    Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle, with a processor designed to determine a driving situation of the vehicle, and a communication interface designed to receive V2X communication data of a first additional vehicle, wherein the V2X communication data defines a driving situation of the first additional vehicle, wherein the processor is designed to detect a second additional vehicle which is located between the vehicle and the first additional vehicle on the basis of the determined driving situation of the vehicle and the driving situation of the first additional vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Harald Feifel, Daniel Förster, Attila Jaeger, Richard Scherping
  • Publication number: 20170334449
    Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle, with a processor designed to determine a driving situation of the vehicle, and a communication interface designed to receive V2X communication data of a first additional vehicle, wherein the V2X communication data defines a driving situation of the first additional vehicle, wherein the processor is designed to detect a second additional vehicle which is located between the vehicle and the first additional vehicle on the basis of the determined driving situation of the vehicle and the driving situation of the first additional vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Harald Feifel, Daniel Förster, Attila Jaeger, Richard Scherping
  • Patent number: 8457283
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for initiating an automatic emergency call wherein an emergency signal is sent when an initiation threshold is reached which is ascertained on the basis of a sensor signal. To prevent the incorrect transmissions of emergency calls and nevertheless to take account of a multiplicity of hazard situations, when the initiation threshold is reached an emergency call is initiated and additionally the reliability of the sensor signals prompting the initiation are assessed. When the sensor signals cannot be interpreted explicitly the emergency call is transmitted only after a delay time. During the delay time, the transmission of the emergency call can still be terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Ulrich Stählin, Harald Feifel
  • Publication number: 20110096912
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for initiating an automatic emergency call wherein an emergency signal is sent when an initiation threshold is reached which is ascertained on the basis of a sensor signal. To prevent the incorrect transmissions of emergency calls and nevertheless to take account of a multiplicity of hazard situations, when the initiation threshold is reached an emergency call is initiated and additionally the reliability of the sensor signals prompting the initiation are assessed. When the sensor signals cannot be interpreted explicitly the emergency call is transmitted only after a delay time. During the delay time, the transmission of the emergency call can still be terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Ulrich Stahlin, Harald Feifel