US 11,836,987 B2
Fusion system for fusing environment information for a motor vehicle
Rainer Faller, Munich (DE); Jelena Frtunikj, Munich (DE); and Hans-Ulrich Michel, Mallersdorf (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/046,041
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 2, 2019, PCT No. PCT/DE2019/100303
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 8, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/196986, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 205 248.4 (DE), filed on Apr. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0370959 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/58 (2022.01) [B60R 16/0231 (2013.01); B60W 50/0098 (2013.01); G06V 10/454 (2022.01); G06V 10/803 (2022.01); B60W 2050/0043 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fusion system for a motor vehicle, comprising:
at least two environment sensors;
a neural network coupled to the environment sensors for fusing environment information from the environment sensors;
a fusion apparatus coupled to the environment sensors for fusing environment information from the environment sensors;
a recording device coupled to the fusion apparatus, wherein the recording device is configured so as to store a circumstance variable that is characteristic of a circumstance relating to a driving situation; and
a control device coupled to the fusion apparatus and to the neural network, wherein the fusion apparatus is configured so as to:
receive the circumstance variable that is characteristic of the circumstance relating to the driving situation from the recording device,
determine an influencing variable characteristic of an influence of a first environment sensor of the environment sensors on the fusion on the basis of the circumstance variable, and
fuse the environment information from the environment sensors on the basis of the influencing variable, and
the control device is configured so as to:
adapt the environment information fused by the neural network on the basis of the environment information fused by the fusion apparatus, and
provide the adapted environment information to a driver assistance system of the motor vehicle.