US 11,915,489 B2
Method, device, computer program and computer program product for operating a vehicle
Dominik Bauch, Muehldorf am Inn (DE); Marco Baumgartl, Gilching (DE); Michael Himmelsbach, Munich (DE); Josef Mehringer, Gmund (DE); Daniel Meissner, Friedberg (DE); and Luca Trentinaglia, Eichenau (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/421,395
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079446
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/160801, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 102 919.8 (DE), filed on Feb. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0092875 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/56 (2022.01) [B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0028 (2013.01); B60W 2400/00 (2013.01); B60W 2554/20 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a vehicle, comprising:
providing sensor data comprising an object detection of a sensor of the vehicle, the object detection being representative of a detected object,
providing a trust model, wherein the trust model is configured to model a trust in the object detection,
depending on the sensor data and the trust model, determining a trust value of the detected object, the trust value of the detected object being representative of how high a trust in the detected object is,
operating the vehicle based on the trust value of the detected object; and
providing object state information comprising information about a state of the detected object during object detection,
wherein the trust model comprises a state trust model, the state trust model being configured to model the trust in the object detection depending on a respective state of the detected object during the object detection, and the trust value of the detected object is determined based on the sensor data, the object state information, and the trust model.