Patent ID: 11941834
Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 14:
15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the distance between the vehicle and the trailer is calculated according to this formula:, x
  =
  
   
    2
    ⁢
    
     y
     c
    
   
   
    
     tan
     ⁢
        
     
      α
      r
     
    
    -
    
     tan
     ⁢
        
     
      α
      l
     
    
   
  
 

wherein x is the distance between the vehicle and the trailer, yc is the distance between the sensing unit and the center of the vehicle, and αr and αl are the angles of the features of a first symmetrical pair of the symmetrical feature pairs with respect to the main visual axis of the sensing unit.