US 12,219,447 B2
Location of neighbouring V2X-capable vehicles
Thorsten Hehn, Ingolstadt (DE); and Julia Rainer, Ingolstadt (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 17/923,141
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed May 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/061637
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/224214, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 112 270.5 (DE), filed on May 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0179971 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/46 (2018.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01); B60Q 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 4/46 (2018.02) [G08G 1/16 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.02); B60Q 1/26 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of locating a second vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle by a first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle, the method comprising:
transmitting a request from the first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle to the second vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle via a vehicle-to-everything communication connection,
receiving, by the first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle, sensor data from at least one sensor of the second vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle via the vehicle-to-everything communication connection,
evaluating, by the first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle, the received sensor data, and
carrying out, by the first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle, at least one action to locate the second vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle, the second vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle being located relative to the first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle if the at least one action carried out by the first vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle is detected on basis of the received sensor data received from the at least one sensor of the second vehicle-to-everything-capable vehicle.