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Method and device for recognizing marked hazard areas and/or construction areas in the region of lanes

US10148917B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH · DE
Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

Stefan Hegemann · Schallstadt, DE
Matthias Komar · Schallstadt, DE
Stefan Lueke · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 10, 2013
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 24, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG08G1/161
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In order to recognize hazard areas and/or construction areas on a roadway, an environment sensor produces detected environment data regarding objects indicating the hazard areas and/or construction areas. A traffic light system is detected in the environment data, position data of the traffic light system is determined, an environment scenario is determined from the environment data and is compared with a reference model of the environment scenario. If the reference model does not indicate the presence of a traffic light system, or indicates a traffic light system having position data differing from the position data of the detected traffic light system, then it is concluded that the detected traffic light system is a traffic light system identifying a hazard and/or construction area.

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