Patent ID: 9135822
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: B60Q,B60W,G01S,G08G

Abstract:
1. A monitoring system for monitoring the area surrounding a vehicle, the system comprising distance sensors arranged at a rear of the vehicle in a main plane and in at least one additional plane, the sensors being configured to detect objects in respective monitoring regions that at least one of present a risk of collision and limit at least one of passage height and passage width, ones of the sensors arranged in the at least one additional plane being arranged such that objects that are not detectable by any distance sensor in the main plane are detectable across an entire width of the vehicle; and a device configured to evaluate signals received from the distance sensors to determine a current distance of the vehicle from a detected one of the objects, to determine a difference between the current distance and a predefinable vehicle-specific setpoint distance, and to output a warning signal when the current distance falls below the difference between the current and setpoint distances.