Patent ID: 11884350
Assignee: JOYNEXT GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  G | IPC B  H

Claim 5:
6. Method for recognizing an object in the vicinity of a first road user using a device for recognizing the object which is carried along by the first or a second road user, the device comprising a sensor unit configured to detect objects in a vicinity of the road user, an object recognition unit configured for object recognition of objects detected with the sensor unit, a memory unit configured for storing recognized objects in an object list, and a transmission unit configured for transmitting the object list, the method comprising the step of:
detecting objects in an environment of the first road user with the sensor unit of the device,
recognizing the objects detected by the sensor unit with the object recognition unit of the device,
storing data regarding the detected objects in the object list with the memory unit of the device,
transferring the object list with the transfer unit of the device to a data cloud,
determining a position of the first road user,
transmitting the position of the first road user to the data cloud,
identifying the object near the first road user in the data cloud using the object list,
transmitting the position and an object type of the identified object from the data cloud to a mobile device of the first road user; and
displaying the object and its position on the mobile device of the first road user,
wherein the mobile device is a smartphone, or a tablet or notebook computer, wherein the transmission unit communicates with the mobile device via a Bluetooth link, or a WLAN link,
wherein the device is arranged at a bicycle.