Patents by Inventor Philipp Hüger

Philipp Hüger 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).

  • Publication number: 20240051604
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle in which a driver of the motor vehicle is assisted during a parking operation by at least one indication being output. Here, at least one trajectory along which the motor vehicle can be moved into a target position in one move is communicated to the driver. When a multiple-move parking operation has to be performed in order to reach the target position from an actual position of the motor vehicle, a start position which is different from the actual position and from which the motor vehicle can be moved into the target position in one move is communicated to the driver by means of an assistance apparatus of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Bastian Göricke
  • Patent number: 11807225
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for providing assistance to a motor vehicle during a process of exiting a lateral parking space. A device is configured with at least one surroundings sensor system and at least one control unit with an assigned memory to acquire successive values of distances from adjacent motor vehicles during a parking process and to store them in a map of the surroundings. The device may be designed in such a way that, before the start of the process of exiting a parking space, current values of distances from the adjacent motor vehicles are acquired and compared with the distance values stored in the map of the surroundings, wherein, when they correspond, a parking-space-exiting trajectory is made available by means of the map of the surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Bastian Göricke, Christian Jördens
  • Patent number: 11738740
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle with a control unit and a method for unparking a transportation vehicle from a parking space, wherein the control unit controls the transportation vehicle at least partly autonomously, wherein the method provides data relating to a current parking situation; determines possible target positionings of the transportation vehicle based on the provided data; determines a probability with which the respective target positioning corresponds to a desired target positioning of a user of the transportation vehicle while taking into account the provided data; orders the target positionings in a ranking according to the probability, and provides the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Sascha Ziebart
  • Patent number: 11634119
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a parking position for a motor vehicle, wherein a perpendicular parking space is detected by means of a sensor system of the motor vehicle, and a parking space data set characterizing the perpendicular parking space is provided to a control unit of the motor vehicle, and the parking position is determined by the control unit by using the parking space data set, as well as by using an access parameter of the motor vehicle that characterizes a possible opening of at least one folding element of the motor vehicle. The invention provides that the parking position is established using an additional access parameter of an additional motor vehicle that is parked adjacent to the parking position. Moreover the invention relates to a driver assistance system and a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Sebastian Busch, Daniel Thomanek
  • Patent number: 11604245
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for establishing the presence of a misalignment of at least one sensor within a sensor group with two or more sensors which detects objects in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, wherein at least two of the sensors differ from each other in their measuring principle and the measurement signals from the sensors are compared with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thorben Günzel, Philipp Hüger, Jana Seeland
  • Publication number: 20220402321
    Abstract: A computer program, a communication circuit, a transportation vehicle, a trailer, and methods for communication between a transportation vehicle and a trailer. The method for the transportation vehicle includes receiving a message from one or more traffic participants, determining whether the respective traffic participant is attached to the transportation vehicle using the message, and associating the message to the trailer in response to determining that the respective traffic participant is attached to the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sven KLOMP, Philipp HÜGER, Steffen FRERK, Hendrik-Jörn GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20220402501
    Abstract: A computer program, a communication circuit for a trailer, a communication circuit for a transportation vehicle, a transportation vehicle, a trailer, and methods for communication between a transportation vehicle and a trailer. Provided is a method for communication between a transportation vehicle and a trailer which includes communicating a message between the transportation vehicle and the trailer using technology for communication between separate transportation vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sven KLOMP, Philipp HÜGER, Steffen FRERK, Hendrik-Jörn GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20220348190
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for providing assistance to a motor vehicle during a process of exiting a lateral parking space. A device is configured with at least one surroundings sensor system and at least one control unit with an assigned memory to acquire successive values of distances from adjacent motor vehicles during a parking process and to store them in a map of the surroundings. The device may be designed in such a way that, before the start of the process of exiting a parking space, current values of distances from the adjacent motor vehicles are acquired and compared with the distance values stored in the map of the surroundings, wherein, when they correspond, a parking-space-exiting trajectory is made available by means of the map of the surroundings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Bastian Göricke, Christian Jördens
  • Publication number: 20220351621
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for detecting a parking space becoming available via an assistance system of a vehicle searching for a parking space. Radar signals are emitted by at least one radar sensor searching for the parking space and whether a parking space becoming available is recognized on the basis of received radar signals, which are evaluated by an evaluation unit of the vehicle. Micro-movements of a vehicle parked in a parking space, may characterize the vacating of the parking space, and may be detected by evaluating the radar signals reflected by this parked vehicle. A presumptive parking space becoming available may be identified by the assistance systems on the basis of such a detection of a micro-movement. An assistance system and a motor vehicle using the assistance system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Bastian Göricke
  • Publication number: 20220274645
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for assisting a driver with a manual parking procedure of a motor vehicle, wherein a processor is used to determine a target parking space and a position of the motor vehicle, to determine at least one driving setting of the motor vehicle, to determine a reachability of the target parking space proceeding from the position using the at least one determined driving setting, and to facilitate actuation of a steering of the motor vehicle by the driver by applying at least one steering torque to the steering if it is determined that the target parking space cannot be reached proceeding from the position with the at least one determined driving setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bastian Göricke, Philipp Hüger
  • Publication number: 20220230451
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for parking a vehicle in a first perpendicular parking space, wherein the position and/or the orientation of another vehicle is determined in the second perpendicular parking space and, depending thereupon, the target position and/or the target orientation of the vehicle in the first perpendicular parking space is determined, wherein by means of at least one optical detection unit of the vehicle, at least one image of the at least one other vehicle is generated before parking the vehicle in the first perpendicular parking space, and the image is evaluated as to whether a headlight or a taillight of the other vehicle is recognized in the image, and depending thereupon, the orientation of the other vehicle is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Christian Jördens
  • Patent number: 11371851
    Abstract: A method for determining landmarks in an environment of a vehicle is described that comprises capturing of initial environmental data, and determining a least a subset of the initial environmental data. The determined subset is assigned a category from a plurality of different categories. Depending on a landmark type, a category is determined, and landmark detection for the landmark type is carried out restricted to the subset of the determined category. A corresponding system for determining landmarks in an environment of a vehicle is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Wappler, Philipp Hüger
  • Publication number: 20220073056
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a parking position for a motor vehicle, wherein a perpendicular parking space is detected by means of a sensor system of the motor vehicle, and a parking space data set characterizing the perpendicular parking space is provided to a control unit of the motor vehicle, and the parking position is determined by the control unit by using the parking space data set, as well as by using an access parameter of the motor vehicle that characterizes a possible opening of at least one folding element of the motor vehicle. The invention provides that the parking position is established using an additional access parameter of an additional motor vehicle that is parked adjacent to the parking position. Moreover the invention relates to a driver assistance system and a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Sebastian Busch, Daniel Thomanek
  • Patent number: 11250706
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a parking assistance system of a transportation vehicle in which a parking space in a surroundings of the transportation vehicle is recognized with reference to sensor data of at least one surroundings sensor of the transportation vehicle and a predetermined parking space category is assigned to the parking space, and a parking maneuver into the parking space with the assigned parking space category is offered to a user of the transportation vehicle, wherein parking space surroundings data that describe a location of the parking space and/or a surroundings of the parking space are determined, a driving direction along which the transportation vehicle will be maneuvered into the parking space is determined with reference to the parking space surroundings data, and the parking maneuver along the determined driving direction is offered to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Bastian Göricke
  • Patent number: 11186224
    Abstract: A method for assisting a coupling process of a transportation vehicle reversing toward a trailer which includes detecting a ball head coupling of the trailer based on a camera image recorded by a camera of the transportation vehicle, limiting the camera image to an image detail in which the ball head coupling is disposed, detecting at least one curved front edge of the ball head coupling within the limited image detail, and determining the engagement position fir a vehicle-side ball head based on the at least one detected curved front edge of the ball head coupling. A trailer coupling assistant for a transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Johannes Fuhs
  • Patent number: 10882555
    Abstract: A method for operating a control device for a transportation vehicle to assist a driver maneuvering the transportation vehicle up to a trailer to couple the transportation vehicle to the trailer, wherein target coordinates of a coupling position provided for the transportation vehicle for coupling are determined by the control device and the process repeated, while a graphical distance display element is displayed to the driver by a display apparatus, a current distance value of a distance of the transportation vehicle from the coupling position is determined, and a size parameter of the graphical distance display element is adjusted based on the current distance value. A non-linear scaling function brings about a higher position resolution in a near region around the coupling position than outside the near region is used for a conversion from the respectively current distance value into a value of the size parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Sascha Ziebart
  • Patent number: 10875533
    Abstract: A method for automatically detecting a coupling maneuver of a transportation vehicle to a trailer including sensing a change in position of a trailer coupling of the trailer within a reversing camera image of the reversing transportation vehicle; making available a data set which includes respective position profiles for coupling maneuvers carried out during reversing of a reference transportation vehicle to a trailer coupling of a reference trailer; comparing the change in position of the trailer coupling with the position profiles of the data set or making available a calculation formula based on the data set and comparing the change in position of the trailer coupling with the calculation formula; outputting an inquiry as to whether a driver of the transportation vehicle desires automatic activation of a trailer coupling assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Simon Kraftschik, Philipp Hüger, Sascha Ziebart
  • Patent number: 10875574
    Abstract: A method for operating a trailer maneuvering assistance system of a transportation vehicle which includes maneuvering a transportation vehicle combination formed by the transportation vehicle and a trailer into a target position assisted by the trailer maneuvering assistance system. The system includes detecting the trailer by a sensor device of the transportation vehicle when the trailer) is coupled to the transportation vehicle, transmitting sensor data relating to the detected trailer to an analysis device of the trailer maneuvering assistance system, determining dimensions of the trailer in the longitudinal direction, the lateral direction and the vertical direction of the trailer based on the transmitted sensor data by the analysis device, and assisting the process of maneuvering the transportation vehicle combination into the target position while taking into account the determined dimensions of the trailer. Also disclosed is a trailer maneuvering assistance system for a transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sascha Ziebart, Philipp Hüger
  • Publication number: 20200307559
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to a system and method for autonomously repositioning a vehicle from a temporary parking position to a final parking position. The vehicle can be manually driven to the temporary parking position by a driver, who may then exit the vehicle. The vehicle, using an electronic parking assistance system, can then determine whether to reposition the vehicle based on whether one or more decision criteria are triggered. If the electronic parking assistance system determines that the vehicle must be repositioned, then the vehicle is autonomously moved from the temporary parking position to the final parking position by the electronic parking assistance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Bastian Göricke, Philipp Hüger
  • Patent number: 10768632
    Abstract: An apparatus for automated, partly automated or assisted maneuvering of a motor vehicle from a start point to a 3D target position including a mono camera and an evaluation and control unit, wherein the evaluation and control unit has at least one structure-from-motion algorithm, wherein the evaluation and control unit calculates a maneuvering trajectory composed of three partial trajectories, wherein a first partial trajectory leads from the start point to a first intermediate point, a second partial trajectory leads from the first to a second intermediate point, and the third partial trajectory leads from the second intermediate point to the target point, wherein at least the first or at least the second partial trajectory is embodied so the mono camera captures the target position from at least two different viewing directions, wherein the viewing directions are selected so the 3D determination of the structure-from-motion is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventor: Philipp Hüger