Patents by Inventor Kai Alexander WITTKAMPF

Kai Alexander WITTKAMPF 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).

  • Method and system for increasing safety of partially or fully automated driving functions
    Patent number: 11908205
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the safety of driving functions in a partially automated or fully autonomous vehicle, including the following steps: capturing (S1) an environment image or a sequence of environment images by means of at least one surroundings detection sensor (2), detecting (S2) driving lane boundaries in the environment image or the sequence of environment images, determining (S3) a driving lane course based on the detected driving lane boundaries; retrieving (S4) a further driving lane course from a data source; checking the plausibility (S5) of the determined driving lane course by verifying a matching of the driving lane courses; identifying (S6) a degree of matching; setting (S7) a confidence value based on the degree of matching; deciding (S8) whether the determined driving lane course is provided to a driving function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Kai Alexander Wittkampf, Sandro Syguda
  • Method and System for Increasing Safety of Partially or Fully Automated Driving Functions
    Publication number: 20210279483
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the safety of driving functions in a partially automated or fully autonomous vehicle, including the following steps: capturing (S1) an environment image or a sequence of environment images by means of at least one surroundings detection sensor (2), detecting (S2) driving lane boundaries in the environment image or the sequence of environment images, determining (S3) a driving lane course based on the detected driving lane boundaries; retrieving (S4) a further driving lane course from a data source; checking the plausibility (S5) of the determined driving lane course by verifying a matching of the driving lane courses; identifying (S6) a degree of matching; setting (S7) a confidence value based on the degree of matching; deciding (S8) whether the determined driving lane course is provided to a driving function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kai Alexander WITTKAMPF, Sandro SYGUDA