Patents by Inventor Thomas EHRMANN

Thomas EHRMANN 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: 20240067263
    Abstract: A method is for reducing an energy demand and/or energy consumption by a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle. The vehicle includes a steering system having at least two wheel steering angle actuators for changing a respective wheel steering angle of a vehicle wheel on an individual wheel basis, and a vehicle sensor system for driving situation recognition. In at least one operating state, in which a predefined driving situation is identified using the vehicle sensor system, a power consumption by at least one wheel steering angle actuator is reduced in order to reduce the energy demand and/or energy consumption, in particular such that the power consumption by the at least one wheel steering angle actuator is below a power consumption by the at least one wheel steering angle actuator planned for in the identified predefined driving situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Riese, Jonas Coesfeld, Matthias Ehrmann, Thomas Kurz, Tobias Ritz
  • Patent number: 10698206
    Abstract: A 3-D augmented reality display system, method, and computer-readable medium, the system including a computer hardware platform including circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive a video image from a view of a front of a vehicle, extract a portion of the video image matching the field of view of a windshield for display on the display device, generate and display a 3-D graphic entity superimposed on the display device and moving along a predetermined trajectory, receive sensory data related to the environment outside the field of view of the windshield, and when the sensory data indicates a real element having a trajectory path that is approaching the field of view of the windshield, generate a bounding box around the real element and adjust the trajectory path of the 3-D graphic entity to a new trajectory path that avoids the trajectory path of the bounding box for the real element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: RENAULT INNOVATION SILICON VALLEY
    Inventors: Lionel Cordesses, Thomas Ehrmann, Paul De Chatelperron
  • Publication number: 20190369391
    Abstract: A 3-D augmented reality display system, method, and computer-readable medium, the system including a computer hardware platform including circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive a video image from a view of a front of a vehicle, extract a portion of the video image matching the field of view of a windshield for display on the display device, generate and display a 3-D graphic entity superimposed on the display device and moving along a predetermined trajectory, receive sensory data related to the environment outside the field of view of the windshield, and when the sensory data indicates a real element having a trajectory path that is approaching the field of view of the windshield, generate a bounding box around the real element and adjust the trajectory path of the 3-D graphic entity to a new trajectory path that avoids the trajectory path of the bounding box for the real element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: RENAULT INNOVATION SILICON VALLEY
    Inventors: Lionel CORDESSES, Thomas EHRMANN, Paul DE CHATELPERRON