Patents by Inventor Stefan Nordbruch

Stefan Nordbruch 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: 20190027037
    Abstract: A method for detecting an unoccupied region within a parking facility, using at least one environment sensor disposed in a stationary manner within the parking facility, is furnished, at least encompassing the following: sensing measured data of at least one segment of the parking facility by way of at least one environment sensor; comparing the measured data with reference measured data in order to recognize a change in the segment of the parking facility; and detecting the segment as an unoccupied or non-unoccupied region as a function of the recognition of a change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Lehn, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20190012916
    Abstract: A motor vehicle, which includes a redundantly designed communications system which has a first communications device for the communication via a first wireless communications network, a second communications device for the communication via a second wireless communications network, and a control unit for the redundant operation of the first communications device and the second communications device. A parking lot for motor vehicles and a communication system are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10165232
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a parking facility for motor vehicles, the parking facility being monitored by way of a monitoring device of a flying drone. A drone and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Gerrit Quast, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180341257
    Abstract: A method is described for operating a vehicle, the driverlessly driving vehicle halting in response to an emergency stop signal in the context of driverless driving of the vehicle within a parking facility, the method being free of a step of checking whether halting is necessary. A corresponding apparatus is described for operating a vehicle, and to a vehicle. A method is described for operating a parking facility for vehicles, and to a corresponding parking facility. A computer program is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Gerrit Quast, Matthew Nimmo
  • Patent number: 10140793
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a parking facility that has an area reserved for autonomously driving vehicles, including: receiving an access request associated with a person for the reserved area, checking whether the person is authorized for access to the reserved area, granting access if the person is authorized for access, monitoring a behavior of the person in the reserved area. Also described is a corresponding device, system and computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20180322786
    Abstract: A method for operating a parking facility containing a plurality of controllable infrastructure elements, one or more of the infrastructure elements being controlled in such a way that traffic is able to be prevented from coming close to a vehicle moving without a driver within the parking facility. In addition, a corresponding apparatus, a corresponding parking facility, as well as a computer program, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180304887
    Abstract: A method for reducing a risk of a collision of a motor vehicle with an object, including specifying a safety area, which defines a delimited subarea of a current motor vehicle surroundings of a motor vehicle driving within a parking facility, ascertaining a location within a parking facility, which is classified as critical, adapting the specified safety area while the motor vehicle is driving toward the critical location in such a way that the critical location lies within the adapted safety area, monitoring the adapted safety area while the motor vehicle is driving toward the critical location for an object moving into the adapted safety area and/or for an object located within the adapted safety area, and controlling a performance of one or multiple safety actions based on the monitoring in order to reduce a risk of a collision of the motor vehicle with the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180286249
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, whereby if the vehicle is traveling without a driver within a parking facility, and if an emergency-stop request is present to the effect that the vehicle moving without driver is to stop, it is checked whether the stop is necessary, an emergency-stop signal being generated, in response to which the vehicle stops without driver, only if the check is positive. A corresponding apparatus, a vehicle, a method for operating a parking facility for vehicles, a parking facility for vehicles, and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180258663
    Abstract: A method for operating a parking lot, which has a first parking area section for parking a motor vehicle, which is adjustable in its height with the aid of a hoisting system and which is able to be shifted by the hoisting system from a first position, in which a motor vehicle is able to enter the first parking area section, to a second position, and when the first parking area section is in the second position, a second parking area section for parking a motor vehicle becomes available underneath the first parking area section. The method includes executing an automatic parking operation for a motor vehicle to be parked in the parking lot; and controlling an operation of the hoisting system as a function of execution of the automatic parking operation. In addition, a device for operating a parking lot, a parking lot, and a computer program are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Manuel Maier, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10071744
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle including at least one assistance function or at least a partially automated driving function, including: ascertaining at least one safe driving state; capturing the current driving state; determining a permissible range for the current driving state of the vehicle from which at least one of the at least one safe driving state is attainable; operating the vehicle using an activable or active assistance function or an at least partially automated driving function within the specified permissible range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Pink, Christoph Schroeder, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180252537
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a spatial position of a mobile unit, the spatial position being determined within a predefined orientation system, as a function of a predetermined number of parameters; a sufficiently known spatial position of the mobile unit being determined, using a subset of the predetermined number of parameters, as a function of operating state values, which represent the operating state of the mobile unit, and/or of surrounding-area values, which represent the surrounding area of the mobile unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Hasberg, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180253970
    Abstract: A method, which can be performed by a system executing instructions on a computer-readable medium, for generating space to park for a motor vehicle includes determining a need for a parking area in a geographic area that includes a roadway, determining a need for road space for the roadway, determining, based on the determined need for the parking area and the determined need for road space, whether a lateral region of the roadway should be set for use as a parking area, and, in response to a positive result of the determination, setting the lateral region of the roadway for use as the parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Murphy, Felix Hess, Gerrit Quast, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180251994
    Abstract: A parking system includes a parking lot having a parking space for parking a motor vehicle; sensors for scanning the parking lot; and a processing unit for assisting in a parking or pickup operation of the motor vehicle independently of a driver, the processing unit being designed to determine that a motor vehicle which is detected inside the parking lot with the aid of the sensors is driving outside a parking or pickup operation controlled independently of a driver, and to trigger an action in response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180247536
    Abstract: A method for operating a parking area that includes a plurality of parking spaces and a plurality of parking occupancy sensors for acquiring a respective state of occupancy of each of the parking spaces, including the following steps: determination, using a parking occupancy sensor, of whether a parking space is free or is occupied by a motor vehicle, if the parking space is occupied by a motor vehicle, testing of whether the parked motor vehicle is permitted to park within the parking area, and if the motor vehicle is not permitted to park within the parking area, controlling of one or more actions in order to make it possible to bring about a removal of the parked motor vehicle. A corresponding system, a corresponding parking area, and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Manuel Maier, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10062278
    Abstract: A parking lot is set up for the parking of motor vehicles. A method for managing the parking lot includes steps of determining a maximum number of motor vehicles able to be parked in the parking lot, of counting of arriving and departing motor vehicles, of determining a number of motor vehicles parked in the parking lot on the basis of the counted motor vehicles, and of determining a number of motor vehicles that are additionally able to be parked in the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manuel Maier, Juergen Auracher, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10059332
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motor vehicle includes steps of scanning an environment of the motor vehicle, controlling the motor vehicle as a function of the scanned information, ascertaining a driving situation of the motor vehicle, and of activating, deactivating or parameterizing a protective function of the motor vehicle as a function of the ascertained driving situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Gregor Blott, Jan Rexilius, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180236993
    Abstract: A method for the driverless guidance of a motor vehicle within a parking lot that includes sensing one or a plurality of road user(s) within the parking lot, predicting a respective movement of the one or the plurality of road user(s), and automatic driverless guidance of the motor vehicle within the parking lot based on the respective predicted movement. A corresponding device, a parking lot, as well as a computer program, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Mielenz, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180240343
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle driving driverlessly within a parking facility, including detecting, by way of a surrounding-area sensor suite of the motor vehicle, a surrounding area of the motor vehicle, in order to ascertain surrounding-area data corresponding to the detected surrounding area; checking motor vehicle-internally, based on the ascertained surrounding-area data, whether the surrounding area of the motor vehicle is devoid of an object that might, with a predetermined probability, collide with the motor vehicle; and continuing driverless driving only when the motor vehicle-internal check has indicated that the surrounding area of the motor vehicle is devoid of a corresponding object, so that the motor vehicle automatically halts if the motor vehicle-internal check has indicated that a corresponding object is located in the surrounding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Publication number: 20180233033
    Abstract: A device for operating a parking facility, including a database in which one or multiple vehicle property/properties is/are stored for different vehicle types, and a processor which is designed to ascertain a type of a vehicle based on the recorded image of the vehicle and to read the vehicle property/properties corresponding to the ascertained vehicle type out of the database, the processor being further designed to ascertain a parking position for the vehicle in the parking facility based on the one or multiple read-out vehicle property/properties. A method for operating a parking facility, a parking system for vehicles, and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicants: Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10048698
    Abstract: A method for guiding a motor vehicle in a parking facility encompasses steps of ascertaining, externally to the motor vehicle, a trajectory in the parking facility from a starting position to a destination position; transmitting at least a segment of the trajectory to the motor vehicle via a communication network; and monitoring the motor vehicle, by way of a monitoring system external to the motor vehicle, as the segment is traversed, to determine a deviation, the trajectory being ascertained as a function of a property of the motor vehicle. Also described are a corresponding apparatus, a parking system, and a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Stefan Hoffmann