Patents by Inventor Stephan Max

Stephan Max 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: 20220268591
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, to a computer program with instructions, and to a device for processing data recorded by a motor vehicle. The invention additionally relates to a motor vehicle and to a back end in which a method according to the invention or a device according to the invention is used. In a first step, data recorded along a route traversed by the motor vehicle are received. The recorded data are then divided into segments of the traversed route, each of the segments being separated by a gap. Additionally, a spatial obfuscation is applied to the data of the segments of the traversed route. The obfuscated data are finally forwarded for further processing. The segmentation and the spatial obfuscation may be carried out within the motor vehicle or in a back end connected to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Martin Wegner, Sabina Alazzawi, Richard Niestroj
  • Publication number: 20220262126
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, to a computer program with instructions, and to a device for processing data recorded by a motor vehicle. The disclosure additionally relates to a motor vehicle and to a back end in which a method according to the disclosure or a device according to the disclosure is used. In a first step, an item of data recorded by a motor vehicle is received. A temporal obfuscation is then applied to the received item of data. In the process, a temporally segmented obfuscation interval is used for the temporal obfuscation. The obfuscated item of data is finally forwarded for further processing. The temporal obfuscation can be carried out within the motor vehicle or in a back end connected to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Martin Wegner, Sabina Alazzawi, Richard Niestroj
  • Publication number: 20220244073
    Abstract: A method and a device for acquiring, offering, and transmitting vehicle-based data of a route section, in particular environment data acquired by a vehicle of a vehicle swarm traveling on the route section and offered to a back-end computer and transmitted if required, comprising: reporting available vehicle-based data relating to the route section currently being traveled on to the back-end computer; requesting at least one selection of the vehicle-based data offered relating to the predefined route section from the vehicle by means of the back-end computer; collecting the requested selection of the vehicle-based data by means of the sensors of the vehicle and storing the data in a memory the vehicle; and transmitting the requested and collected data to the back-end computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Edson William Fangwa Nzeya
  • Publication number: 20220204048
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for ascertaining a vehicle trajectory, via a system that includes a motor vehicle and a network server. Individual trajectories of a plurality of motor vehicles being traversed, and secondary information linked to the individual trajectories are detected. The individual trajectories of the plurality of motor vehicles, and the linked secondary information may be transmitted to a network server. A swarm trajectory may be ascertained by a network server as an average of the individual trajectories using the individual trajectories and the linked secondary information, wherein the average may be weighted using the secondary information. The network server may transmit the swarm trajectory to at least one motor vehicle. An associated motor vehicle configured for the system and network server is further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Sven Klomp, Stephan Max, Frank Bärecke
  • Patent number: 11325470
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium with instructions for controlling a display of an augmented-reality head-up display device for a transportation vehicle. A position of the transportation vehicle is determined relative to a map; at least one reference point is extracted from the map, the at least one reference point is obtained from an area within a visual range of a driver of the transportation vehicle; transforming the at least one reference point into transportation vehicle coordinates; generating a virtual object for display by the augmented-reality head-up display device, considering the at least one transformed reference point; and outputting the virtual object for display by the augmented-reality head-up display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Ulrich Wuttke
  • Publication number: 20220120585
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for monitoring and correcting the obfuscation of vehicle-related data. Personal data may be removed from the transmitted vehicle-related data, and the vehicle-related data after the removal of the personal references may be combined to form a vehicle-related data set without personal references. A temporal and spatial obfuscation of the vehicle-related data set may be carried out without personal references based on an estimated size of a cluster of data-collecting vehicles for generating an anonymous data set. The anonymous data set, including the degree of obfuscation, may be provided to a data user and an actual cluster size for a spatial region based on the provided anonymous data sets may be determined and compared with the estimated cluster size used for the obfuscation of the anonymous data set. The comparison result may be then used to correct the obfuscation of the spatial region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Christian Alexander Seidel
  • Patent number: 11310330
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for requesting, analyzing and transmitting data from driver assistance systems (DAS) on a vehicle to an external user. Sensors of the vehicle's DAS determine DAS data, and save the DAS data and summary in a vehicle-side swarm data aggregator. The summary of the DAS data may be transmitted to a swarm memory of an external backend computer, and an analysis device analyzes the summary of the DAS data. The analysis device requests the DAS data saved in the swarm data aggregator if the analysis of the summary shows that relevant DAS data is present in the swarm data aggregator. The DAS data is transmitted from the swarm data aggregator on the vehicle to the swarm memory of the backend computer on the basis of the request. The DAS data may then be transferred from the swarm memory to the external user for further use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Roman Koch
  • Publication number: 20220113155
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing position data of at least one entrance to a navigation destination. The method comprises the following: receiving respective vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles by means of an external server device, the vehicle data characterizing the current state and/or the environment of the vehicle in question; checking if, for the navigation destination, position data of at least one entrance to the navigation destination are known; if this is not the case: determining the position data by means of evaluation of the vehicle data that were provided by vehicles when said vehicles stopped in the area of the navigation destination, and by means of map data associated with the navigation destination; associating the determined position data with the navigation destination such that the navigation system determines a driving route over the entrance to the navigation destination when the navigation destination is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorben GÜNZEL, Stephan MAX
  • Publication number: 20220070148
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for anonymously providing data of a motor vehicle. A first dataset is generated by a motor vehicle, and the first dataset is anonymized using a vehicle computing unit. User related data and the anonymized first dataset are communicated to a first server system using the vehicle computing unit and the communicated user related data is deleted using the first server system. The anonymized first dataset is communicated to a second server system using the first server system after deletion of the user related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Markus Stinner
  • Publication number: 20220068048
    Abstract: According to a method for providing data of a motor vehicle, a first dataset is generated by means of the motor vehicle and anonymized by means of a vehicle processor. The anonymized first dataset is communicated to a server system by means of the vehicle processor. Therein, the anonymization is effected based on a predetermined parameter set. By means of the server system, a degree of anonymization achieved by the anonymization is determined based on the anonymized first dataset, and an adapted parameter set is generated based on the degree of anonymization and communicated to the vehicle processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Markus Stinner
  • Publication number: 20220028276
    Abstract: A method for a transportation vehicle of a transportation vehicle fleet for transmitting data to a data processing system including receiving a message, wherein the message includes information about data to be transmitted and information about a predetermined probability of the data transmission; determining whether the data to be transmitted are transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system, using a random number generator and the information about the predetermined probability of the data transmission; and sending the data to be transmitted to the data processing system, in response to determining that the data to be transmitted are transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan MAX, Peter BAUMANN
  • Patent number: 11161511
    Abstract: A method for assisting an operation at least of one transportation vehicle, a corresponding assist system and the corresponding transportation vehicle. Respective environmental data are collected by transportation vehicles in areas in which two roads meet. A respective priority action is automatically determined from the environmental data for the areas. The determined priority actions are used to automatically determine priority rules for the areas. The determined priority rules are provided to at least one transportation vehicle to be operated to assist the operation of the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Thorben Günzel, Sven Klomp
  • Publication number: 20210329086
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for requesting, analyzing and transmitting data from driver assistance systems (DAS) on a vehicle to an external user. Sensors of the vehicle's DAS determine DAS data, and save the DAS data and summary in a vehicle-side swarm data aggregator. The summary of the DAS data may be transmitted to a swarm memory of an external backend computer, and an analysis device analyzes the summary of the DAS data. The analysis device requests the DAS data saved in the swarm data aggregator if the analysis of the summary shows that relevant DAS data is present in the swarm data aggregator. The DAS data is transmitted from the swarm data aggregator on the vehicle to the swarm memory of the backend computer on the basis of the request. The DAS data may then be transferred from the swarm memory to the external user for further use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Roman Koch
  • Patent number: 11150319
    Abstract: A method for a transportation vehicle of a transportation vehicle fleet for transmitting data to a data processing system including receiving a message, wherein the message includes information about data to be transmitted and information about a predetermined probability of the data transmission; determining whether the data to be transmitted are transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system, using a random number generator and the information about the predetermined probability of the data transmission; and sending the data to be transmitted to the data processing system, in response to determining that the data to be transmitted are transmitted from the transportation vehicle to the data processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Peter Baumann
  • Publication number: 20210284131
    Abstract: A method for operating a transportation vehicle, in particular, for driving the transportation vehicle into a predefined parking space, wherein a first trajectory for automated travel of the transportation vehicle into the predefined parking space is stored in a vehicle-side memory device, which trajectory has been detected during manual travel of the transportation vehicle into the predefined parking space and the first trajectory is assigned tolerance values for a deviation from the first trajectory, which is the maximum deviation by which the transportation vehicle deviates from the first trajectory during automated travel into the predefined parking space, wherein, in the case of at least one further instance of manual travel of the transportation vehicle into the predefined parking space, the further trajectory which is travelled along is detected automatically and the first trajectory and the further trajectory are compared with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan MAX, Kristian WEISS, Sascha BAUER, Mehmet Eylem KIRLANGIC, Andreas WEGE, Robert KONNOPKA, Lars KRÜGER, Jesko KLANDT, Christian TENDYCK
  • Publication number: 20210172762
    Abstract: A method for calibrating at least one position sensor in a vehicle is provided, comprising: saving a map in the vehicle with at least one item of virtual location information from the environment of a predefined calibration route, moving the vehicle on the predefined calibration route, detecting at least one item of actual location information via the at least one position sensor while the vehicle moves on the predefined calibration route, carrying out a comparison between the at least one item of virtual location information and the at least one item of actual location information, calculating a map-based movement of the vehicle within the saved map based on the comparison, calculating an odometry-based movement of the vehicle, and calibrating the at least one position sensor based on a comparison between the map-based movement and the odometry-based movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Michael Rohlfs
  • Publication number: 20210150889
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for determining a cluster-based stopping point for a motor vehicle for a predefined reason for stopping in a lane of a road. The individual stopping points of a plurality of vehicles may be determined for the reason for stopping in the lane, wherein the vehicles are controlled by individual drivers. A distribution of the individual stopping points in the lane at least in the direction of travel of the vehicles may be determined. The maximum of the distribution may be determined and stored as a cluster-based stopping point. The cluster-based stopping point determined in this way may be applied to autonomous driving technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Thomas Günterberg, Timur Aminev, Peter Baumann
  • Patent number: 10997855
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting vehicle-based environmental data relating to at least one transportation vehicle traveling on a predefined road section to a backend for the purpose of collecting data records relating to the road section. The method generates data relating to the environment of the transportation vehicle by an environment sensor system; generates quality parameters relating to the sensors in the environment sensor system, wherein the quality parameters enable a statement regarding the performance of the sensors; combines the quality parameters and the measurement data to form a data record and creating a summary relating to the data record; transmits the header to the backend; checks the quality parameters of the header; and rejects the header in response to the quality parameters not complying with a predetermined quality standard or retains the header for further processing in response to the quality parameters complying with the predetermined quality standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Edson William Fangwa Nzeya
  • Patent number: 10983529
    Abstract: A method for providing data for a first trajectory and a second trajectory where trajectory data relating to the first and second trajectories are captured. Trajectory database data are generated for the first and second trajectories based on the captured trajectory data, and the trajectory database data are stored in a non-volatile way. A trajectory comparison of the first and second trajectories is carried out based on the captured trajectory data, and at least one common section is determined during the trajectory comparison based on the first and second trajectories. The common section is stored as a common data structure for the first and second trajectories. Also disclosed is a system for providing data for a first trajectory and a second trajectory having a trajectory capture unit, a computing unit, and a memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Kristian Weiß, Sascha Bauer, Sönke Freter, Björn Richter
  • Patent number: 10922972
    Abstract: A method and a device for transmitting vehicle-based environment data of a transportation vehicle travelling on a predetermined section of a road to a backend device for collecting data records relating to the specified section of the road, wherein the backend includes a master data backend and a vehicle data backend that are independent of each other, including registration of the transportation vehicle with the actual vehicle identification number with the master data backend via a wireless communication, transmitting a pseudo-vehicle identification number that is different from the actual vehicle identification number to the transportation vehicle on the part of the master data backend, wherein the allocation of the pseudo-vehicle identification number to the actual vehicle identification number is known outside the transportation vehicle exclusively to the master data backend, and submitting data records or summaries of data records to the vehicle data backend using the pseudo-vehicle identification numbe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Edson William Fangwa Nzeya