Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced object detection and motion estimation for a vehicle environment detection system
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Application No.: US16475505Application Date: 2018-01-12
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Publication No.: US11215707B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Martin Hofmann
- Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
- Applicant Address: SE Vargarda
- Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
- Current Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
- Current Assignee Address: SE Vargarda
- Agency: Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Priority: EP17151310 20170113
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/050717 WO 20180112
- International Announcement: WO2018/130634 WO 20180719
- Main IPC: G01S13/931
- IPC: G01S13/931 ; G01S13/58 ; G01S13/72 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
A vehicle environment detection system (2) that includes at least one radar sensor arrangement (3) and at least one processing unit (4), where the radar sensor arrangement (3) is arranged to detect at least two radar detections (9, 10, 11) during at least two radar cycles. For each radar cycle, the processing unit (4) generates a detection list ({Dit}t=t0, . . . ,t0−N) including range (ri), azimuth angle (φi) and Doppler velocity (vi) for each of the radar detections (9, 10, 11). The processing unit (4) is further arranged to aggregate and store detection lists ({Dit}t=t0, . . . ,t0−N) from the radar cycles in a detection memory (12), and then to group the radar detections (9, 10, 11) in the detection lists ({Dit}t=t0, . . . ,t0−N) into consistently moving motion subsets (40, 41, 42) in a segmentation procedure. Each motion subset (40, 41, 42) corresponds to a certain target object (6, 7, 8).
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