US 11,776,407 B2
Cargo detection system and method for detecting overhanging cargo on a motor vehicle
Lukas Gaß, Mainz (DE); Frank Wolf, Dreieich-Sprendlingen (DE); Martin Eschle, Idstein (DE); Michael Schreiber, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Seonok Lee, Rüsselsheim (DE); Saif Mudhafar, Wiesbaden (DE); Baris Dönmez, Stadtecken-Elsheim (DE); Holger Bartelmeß, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Dirk Kuxhausen, Alzenau Michelbach (DE); and Ingmar Langer, Darmstadt (DE)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/405,601.
Claims priority of application No. 102021204841.2 (DE), filed on May 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366792 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); G01S 13/42 (2006.01); G01S 15/42 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); G01S 17/42 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); B60J 5/10 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/168 (2013.01) [B60Q 9/008 (2013.01); B60R 11/04 (2013.01); G01S 13/42 (2013.01); G01S 15/42 (2013.01); G01S 17/42 (2013.01); B60J 5/101 (2013.01); B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60R 2011/004 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cargo detection system for detecting overhanging cargo on a motor vehicle, the cargo detection system comprising:
a sensor system configured to provide cargo measurement data for cargo loaded onto the motor vehicle by measuring at least one of exterior dimensions of cargo protruding over an outer edge of the motor vehicle and/or an opening condition of a tailgate of the motor vehicle; and
a control device configured to assess, based on the cargo measurement data of the sensor system, whether cargo is overhanging from the motor vehicle and to calculate an updated vehicle length and/or vehicle width for the motor vehicle accounting for the overhanging cargo,
wherein the control device is configured to estimate a blind spot region at a distal end of the overhanging cargo, based on a field of view of the sensor system, and to add a corresponding blind spot extension to the updated vehicle length and/or vehicle width.