Patent ID: 8126640

Claim:
A method for travel course prediction in a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having a position finding system for objects situated ahead of the motor vehicle traveling on a road, a function describing the shape of a roadside being computable on the basis of measured distance data and angle data for stationary targets, the method comprising: identifying and tracking stationary targets with the position finding system; estimating, with a processor, a possible shape of the roadside for each of a plurality of subsets of the stationary targets, using an assumption that the stationary targets of that particular subset are located on the roadside; differentiating, with the processor, stationary targets into roadside targets and interfering objects on the basis of at least one plausibility criterion applied to the estimated possible shape of the roadside for a particular subset; and determining, with the processor, the most probable shape of the roadside on the basis of the roadside targets.