Patent ID: 6438491
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: B60W,G01S,G06K,G08G

Abstract:
A system for stationary object detection for a mobile machine or vehicle comprising:a system to provide location data relating to the mobile machine or vehicle, at least one sensor capable of sensing at least one stationary object in the vicinity of the mobile machine or vehicle and providing data related to at least position information of said object relative to said at least one sensor; at least one preexisting reference database having previously recorded data relating to at least one normally present stationary object therein, comprising at least location information relating to the at least one normally present stationary object, at least one processor which receives said data from said at least one sensor, said processor configured to evaluate the degree to which at least one sensed stationary object is or is not a normally-present stationary object based on a comparison to the previously recorded data or data derived from previously recorded data from the reference database; and wherein said previously recorded data is acquired from one or more sensors capable of sensing at least one stationary object and providing data related to said object.