US 12,487,355 B2
Vehicular driving assist system using radar and communication with other vehicles
Ha Bui-Van, Aschaffenburg (DE); and Wilhelm Johann Wolfgang Wöhlte, Sailauf (DE)
Assigned to Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Jan. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/155,139.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/267,243, filed on Jan. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0243962 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G01S 13/931 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01S 13/89 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 13/931 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G01S 13/89 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); B60W 2554/402 (2020.02); B60W 2554/404 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02); G01S 2013/9318 (2020.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular sensing system, the vehicular sensing system comprising:
a radar sensor disposed at a first vehicle equipped with the vehicular sensing system and sensing exterior of the first vehicle, the radar sensor capturing radar data;
an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed at the first vehicle, the ECU comprising electronic circuitry and associated software;
wherein the electronic circuitry of the ECU comprises a data processor for processing sensor data captured by the radar sensor;
wherein the vehicular sensing system, responsive to processing by the data processor of sensor data captured by the radar sensor, detects presence of objects within a field of sensing of the radar sensor;
wherein, responsive to a sensing system of a second vehicle detecting an object while the detected object is not within the field of sensing of the radar sensor of the first vehicle, the vehicular sensing system receives from the second vehicle one or more characteristics of the detected object while the detected object is not within the field of sensing of the radar sensor of the first vehicle; and
wherein the vehicular sensing system, responsive to receiving the one or more characteristics of the detected object from the second vehicle, adjusts sensing by the radar sensor of the first vehicle based at least in part on the received one or more characteristics of the detected object.