Patent ID: 11876955
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for qualification of a camera system and/or image/camera signals of the camera, of a partially autonomously or autonomously driving vehicle using infrastructure information of a vehicle's surroundings, the method comprising the following steps:
a) monitoring the image/camera signals of the camera system by a monitoring function with regard to at least the following criteria:
whether the image/camera signals are transmitted in recurring, known time windows,
a sequence of the image/camera signals,
corruption of the image/camera signals,
signature checking of the camera system;

b) checking the image/camera signals using unmoving land markings that are reconciled with a list;
c) communicating the image/camera signals according to a) and the infrastructure information contained in an updated map check function according to b) to an evaluation function and comparing them in a signal fusion unit; and
d) obtaining qualified image/camera signals after carrying out c).