Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100168965 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRIGGERING PASSENGER PROTECTION MEANS - In a method for triggering a passenger protection arrangement for a vehicle, a feature vector including at least two features is determined, the two features being derived from at least one signal of an accident sensor system. The feature vector is classified as a function of a comparison with at least one class boundary. The passenger protection arrangement is triggered as a function of the classification. A confidence measure is determined as a function of a position of the at least one feature vector in relation to the at least one class boundary. The triggering of passenger protection arrangement takes place as a function of this confidence measure. | 07-01-2010 |
20100292885 | Control Unit and Method for Trigger Passenger Protection Means - A control unit and a method for triggering a passenger protection arrangement are described, a first hardware path and a second hardware path together inducing the triggering on the basis of at least one accident signal from an accident sensor system. An analyzer circuit for processing the at least one accident signal is present in the first hardware path, and a plausibility circuit is present in the second hardware path. At least the plausibility circuit is additionally connected to an interface, the interface supplying a signal of at least one additional control unit. The plausibility circuit also enables the triggering as a function of this signal. | 11-18-2010 |
20100292887 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SAFETY MEANS FOR A VEHICLE - In a method and a system for controlling a safety system for a vehicle, a sensor suite is provided to generate at least one yaw-acceleration signal. An evaluation circuit is used to sample the at least one yaw-acceleration signal with a sampling time of less than 10 ms, and to generate a control signal as a function of the at least one sampled yaw-acceleration signal. | 11-18-2010 |
20100305818 | METHOD AND CONTROL UNIT FOR ACTIVATING OCCUPANT PROTECTION MEANS, AS WELL AS COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A control unit and a method for activating an occupant protection arrangement are described, a feature vector having at least two features being formed from at least one signal of a crash sensor system. The occupant protection arrangement is activated by a kernel algorithm as a function of the feature vector or a first partial feature vector. The feature vector or a second partial feature vector is classified by a support vector machine (SVM) and the kernel algorithm is influenced by the classification. | 12-02-2010 |
20110066334 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRIGGERING PASSENGER PROTECTION MEANS FOR A VEHICLE - A method and a control device for triggering a passenger protection arrangement for a vehicle are provided, at least one sensor signal from an accident sensor system being provided. A characteristic is derived from this at least one sensor signal, and a flatness is determined from this first characteristic in relation to at least one second characteristic. The crash type is then determined as a function of this flatness. The triggering the passenger protection arrangement (PS) takes place as a function of this crash type. | 03-17-2011 |
20110112726 | Method and Control Device for Triggering Passenger Protection Means for a Vehicle - A control device and a method for triggering a passenger protection arrangement for a vehicle are provided, at least two acceleration signals being provided by at least two acceleration sensors oriented in different spatial directions. The orientations are angled in relation to a coordinate system oriented toward the vehicle longitudinal direction. The at least two acceleration signals are transformed on at least two axes of the coordinate system. The triggering signal is generated as a function of the comparison of the at least two acceleration signals and the transformed acceleration signals. The passenger protection arrangement is triggered as a function of the triggering signal. | 05-12-2011 |
20110153164 | Method and control unit for activating at least one safety device - A method for activating at least one safety device that has a first step of acquiring at least two features from at least one signal of a crash sensor system in order to form a feature vector from the features acquired. In a second method step, the formed feature vector is subsequently classified with the aid of a classifier based on the statistical learning theory in order to classify the feature vector in one of at least three possible feature classes. As a third method step, the safety devices are activated in accordance with an activation instruction for the feature class in which the feature vector was classified. | 06-23-2011 |
20110190988 | METHOD AND CONTROL UNIT FOR ACTIVATING PASSENGER PROTECTION MEANS FOR A VEHICLE - In a method for activating a passenger protection unit for a vehicle, features are generated from at least one sensor signal of a crash sensor system. Furthermore, a difference of a feature vector with a first threshold value is formed. This difference is weighted as a function of at least one of the features. The passenger protection unit is subsequently activated as a function of a comparison of a variable, derived from the weighted difference, with a second threshold value. | 08-04-2011 |
20120004811 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRIGGERING PASSENGER PROTECTION MEANS FOR A VEHICLE - A method and a control device for triggering passenger protection means for a vehicle are provided, at least one sensor signal from an accident sensor system being provided by an interface. Furthermore, at least two characteristics are generated from the sensor signal, which are mapped onto one single value range. The triggering of the passenger protection means occurs as a function of the at least two mapped characteristics. | 01-05-2012 |
20120078569 | METHOD AND CONTROL UNIT FOR CLASSIFYING A COLLISION OF A VEHICLE - A method for detecting a collision of a vehicle is described, including a step of receiving a linear signal and a rotation signal via an interface, the linear signal containing information about a linear motion, and the rotation signal containing information about a rotational motion of the vehicle. The method also includes a step of supplying an evaluation signal based on the linear signal and the rotation signal, the evaluation signal containing information about the collision. | 03-29-2012 |