Patent ID: 9373255
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G08G

Claim Text:
1. A method for producing an up-to-date situation depiction, the method comprising: capturing environment data in a geographic area by at least one of ambient sensors and vehicle sensors of an in-vehicle system, generating, by a processor of the in-vehicle system, a probability associated with the environment data, and storing the probability in a digital memory of the in-vehicle system, reading, by the processor of the in-vehicle system, map data from the digital memory of the in-vehicle system, determining, by the processor of the in-vehicle system, a position of the vehicle by a global satellite position system of the in-vehicle system, wirelessly transmitting the environment data with the associated probability, by a vehicle-to-X communication device of the in-vehicle system to a stationary database arranged in proximity to the geographic area, comparing, by a processor of the stationary database, the environment data and associated probability with other environment data and other associated probability of the geographical area that is already existent in a memory of the stationary database, to determine when the environment data and the associated probability differ from the other environment data and the other associated probability that is already existent in a memory of the stationary database, continually merging, by the processor of the stationary database, environment data and the associated probability with the other environment data and the other associated probability when they differ, to form an up-to-date situation depiction of the geographic area, transmitting, by a vehicle-to-X communication device of the stationary database to the in-vehicle system, the up-to-date situation depiction of the geographic area, and controlling recognition, by the processor of the in-vehicle system, of the environment data based on the received probabilities.