US 12,093,041 B2
Processing sensor data in a motor vehicle
Sebastian Ohl, Schwalbach a. Ts. (DE)
Assigned to ELEKTROBIT AUTOMOTIVE GMBH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/067,112.
Claims priority of application No. 19202734 (EP), filed on Oct. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0109526 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0088 (2013.01) [B60W 50/00 (2013.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G07C 5/08 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0014 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for processing sensor data in a motor vehicle, comprising:
receiving sensor data;
applying at least one algorithm to the sensor data to determine a first intermediate result;
applying one or more rules to the first intermediate result to determine a second intermediate result;
tracking the order in which the rules are applied;
entering the one or more rules applied to the first intermediate result in a list;
sorting the one or more rules applied to the first intermediate result in the list by a priority of the one or more rules;
evaluating the second intermediate result with regard to plausibility;
if the second intermediate result is implausible, reversing one or more of the one or more rules applied to the first intermediate result until the second intermediate result is plausible;
outputting the second intermediate result as an end result; and
using the end result to at least partially control an assisted or an automated driving function.