Abstract: An integrated circuit including an optical input, which can be coupled to an optical fiber, allowing an optical signal to be provided to the optical input via the optical fiber. The integrated circuit includes a controllable liquid crystal element, into which the optical signal can be coupled via the optical input. The integrated circuit is characterized by an optical waveguide arranged directly at the liquid crystal element, and a control device designed to activate the liquid crystal element to modulate its refractive index, thereby enabling at least partial coupling of the optical signal into the optical waveguide. The present disclosure also relates to a system and a method.

Abstract: A radar sensor apparatus for a transportation vehicle having a central electronic computing device to generate an electrical control signal for a transmitting device; a laser device which, in accordance with the electrical control signal, generates an optical transfer signal for transfer to the transmitting device; a transformation device having at least one first optical ring resonator which, in accordance with the optical transfer signal, generates a pulse train, the transformation device generates an electrical emission signal in accordance with the pulse train; the transmitting device which is designed to emit the electrical emission signal; and a receiving device for receiving an electrical receive signal and for transferring the electrical receive signal to the central electronic computing device. Also disclosed is a method for operating the radar sensor apparatus.

Abstract: A method for determining depth information relating to image information by an artificial neural network in a vehicle, comprising providing at least one emitter and first and second receiving sensors being spaced apart from one another; emitting electromagnetic radiation by the emitter; receiving reflected proportions of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter by the receiving sensors and generating first image information by the first receiving sensor and second image information by the second receiving sensor on the basis of the received reflected proportions; comparing the first and second image information for determining an image area unequally illuminated in the first and second image information which occurs by parallax due to the spaced-apart arrangement of the receiving sensors; evaluating geometric information of the unequally illuminated image area and estimating depth information by the artificial neural network on the basis of the evaluation of the geometric information.

Abstract: A method for online calibration of sensor information from a vehicle, wherein the vehicle has at least one sensor of a first sensor type and at least one sensor of a second sensor type which is different from the first sensor type.

Abstract: A method for determining information about the ego-motion of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises a stereo camera system with at least two cameras for capturing stereo images of the area surrounding the vehicle and an artificial neural network for processing the image information provided by the stereo camera system, wherein the stereo camera system captures image sequences which contain a plurality of image information at different points in time by means of the at least two cameras during the movement of the vehicle, wherein the artificial neural network receives the image information and, based thereon, generates stereo images with distance information, and the artificial neural network provides information regarding the ego-motion of the vehicle at an output interface on the basis of the image information of the stereo camera system.

Abstract: A sensor system for surrounding area detection for a motor vehicle, including an optical device for generating an optical transmission signal, and a transmitter device having: an optical input configured for receiving the optical transmission signal, a radio-based transmitter unit configured for emitting an electrical emitted signal, based on the optical transmission signal, and an optical transmitter unit configured for emitting an optical emitted signal which is based on the transmission signal. The sensor system also may include a receiver device having: an optical input configured for receiving the optical transmission signal, a radio-based receiver unit for receiving an electrical received signal, and an optical receiver unit for receiving an optical received signal. A central computing device is configured for processing emitted and/or received signals.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for correcting a radar signal to determine a synthetic aperture. Data indicative of the radar signal is received, the radar signal having a sequence of echoes from a target region and being based on a sequence of transmission pulses. A movement of at least one target object in the target region is determined, and correction information for the radar signal is determined, based on the movement of the target object. An influence of the movement of the target object on the radar signal is reduced, based on the correction information to obtain a corrected radar signal.

Abstract: A method for providing an artificial neural network which includes providing optical signal for the network to obtain an output of the network by processing the optical signal by the network and using a property of the optical signal which is specific to a spectral and/or temporal phase of the optical signal to provide at least one network component of the network for processing, wherein the at least one network component has at least one neuron and/or a weight of the network.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for providing an artificial neural network, comprising at least one optical neuron component for providing at least one neuron of the network. The neuron component is in the form of a nonlinear optical component, in order to output, depending on an input signal of the neuron component having a first frequency, an output signal of the neuron component having a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for operating an electro-optical transmission device. An optical carrier signal is generated via an optical signal source of a base unit of the transmission device. An arbitrary signal is generated via the optical signal source, and the arbitrary signal is modulated onto the optical carrier signal in the base unit, forming a transmission signal. The transmission signal is transmitted to an antenna unit of the transmission device via an optical transmission medium, and the arbitrary signal and the carrier signal are separated in the antenna unit. Aspects also are directed to a computer program product and to a transmission device configured to perform such functions.

Abstract: System and method for operating a radar system that includes a plurality of antennas, wherein a respective antenna signal is received from each of the antennas and is converted into a digital antenna signal via an analog-to-digital conversion. Digital signal data of the antennas are provided in a data memory. Signal evaluation is performed in a two-stage design, where a predetermined subset of the signal data is supplied to an evaluation module for a target detection, and resolution cells for which, the associated resolution gate meets a predetermined occupancy criterion are selected, and only the signal data available in the data memory for the selected resolution cells are selected for these resolution cells for further processing.

Abstract: A method and a device for detecting an object using broadband laser pulses with a given wavelength distribution, pulse duration and repetition frequency which is suitable for use in a motor vehicle comprise the steps: emit broadband laser pulses, generate a stretched pulse from each broadband laser pulse by applying an angle dispersion to the broadband laser pulse, whereby the different wavelengths of the broadband laser pulse are spread into different angles detect a reflected subsection of the stretched pulse which is reflected by the object arranged in the stretched pulse, determine the wavelengths in the reflected subsection of the stretched pulse, determine the runtime of the stretched pulse from the dispersive element to the object using a time-of-flight method, and determine the distance and the width of the object as a function of the runtime of the stretched pulse and the wavelength range of the reflected subsection of the stretched pulse.

Abstract: A method for determining the roadway plane in the surrounding area of a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a stereo camera system for capturing stereo images of the surrounding area of the vehicle and an artificial neural network for processing the image information provided by the stereo camera system, wherein the neural network determines disparity information of the surrounding area of the vehicle, wherein, on the basis of the disparity information, distance information is calculated which contains information regarding the distance of the objects displayed on the image information from the stereo camera system or the vehicle, wherein roadway distance information is extracted from the distance information, wherein the roadway plane is determined on the basis of the roadway distance information.

Abstract: A method and a device for detecting an object using broadband laser pulses with a given wavelength distribution, pulse duration and repetition frequency which is suitable for use in a motor vehicle comprise the steps: emit broadband laser pulses, generate a stretched pulse from each broadband laser pulse by applying an angle dispersion to the broadband laser pulse, whereby the different wavelengths of the broadband laser pulse are spread into different angles detect a reflected subsection of the stretched pulse which is reflected by the object arranged in the stretched pulse, determine the wavelengths in the reflected subsection of the stretched pulse, determine the runtime of the stretched pulse from the dispersive element to the object using a time-of-flight method, and determine the distance and the width of the object as a function of the runtime of the stretched pulse and the wavelength range of the reflected subsection of the stretched pulse.