US 12,125,382 B2
Method and a device for identifying potential hazard zones in road traffic
Patrick Blume, Stuttgart (DE); Joachim Herbst, Nellingen (DE); Matthias Mallik, Schriesheim (DE); Hermann Trick, Alpirsbach (DE); Jochen Hipp, Tübingen (DE); and Pilar Hernandez Mesa, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/914,513
Filed by MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/056993
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/191051, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 108 531.1 (DE), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0137142 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/0969 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/096775 (2013.01) [G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/0141 (2013.01); G08G 1/0145 (2013.01); G08G 1/0969 (2013.01); G08G 1/164 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for identifying potential hazard zones in road traffic by vehicles connected to a central computer unit, the method comprising:
recording an incident indicative of a potential hazard zone and transmitting the recorded incident to the central computer unit with a geolocation of the incident, wherein the recorded incident is vegetation obscuring a pedestrian crossing;
listing the transmitted incident as a hotspot in a digital map if there are a large number of similar incidents with a same geolocation as the incident;
adding contextual information to the transmitted incident;
analyzing the hotspot to recognize a potential hazard zone;
comparing the hotspot with confirmed hotspots; and
depicting the hotspot and confirmed hotspots on a platform, wherein a geolocation of a hotspot of confirmed traffic-critical incidents is transmitted to an authority to be checked or as a warning message to a vehicle that is near the geolocation of the hotspot of the confirmed traffic-critical incidents,
wherein the geolocation of the hotspot is reported to a road authority.