Patent ID: 11874125
Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for assisted reversing of a vehicle, comprising:
initiating, by a computer, a continuing recording of a current forward segment when the vehicle begins forward movement;
offering, by the computer, assisted reversing along the current forward segment to an operator of the vehicle;
repeatedly, by the computer, assessing whether the current forward segment is mergeable with a recorded preceding forward segment; and
in response to a positive finding of mergeability:
determining, by the computer, a merged segment comprising a tail section of the preceding forward segment, a head section of the current forward segment, and a connecting section which joins these sections, wherein the determining of the merged segment is performed subject to a continuity condition; and
replacing, by the computer, the current forward segment with the merged segment.