Jauregui Urbahn, Kristian

The invention is directed at an electronic control device (14) for a motor vehicle (34), comprising a housing (10) with a housing interior (16), a printed circuit board (18) with at least one electronic component arranged inside the housing interior (16), wherein the at least one electronic component is thermally coupled to an inner housing surface, and a cooling device, comprising a cooling structure (20), which is at least partially integrated into an outer housing surface, and a fan (22) for generating a cooling airflow (30), which is directed at the cooling structure (20). The cooling structure (20) comprises a truncated cone (28) extending from the outer housing surface and pointing towards the fan (22), wherein the truncated cone (28) comprises radially extending airflow control ribs (32).

The invention is directed at an Electronic control device (10) for a motor vehicle (36), comprising- a housing with a housing interior, the housing comprising an upper housing part (12) and a lower housing part (26), which in an assembled state form the interior of the housing,- a printed circuit board (28), which is arranged inside the interior of the housing, and- at least one electrical component (22), which is arranged on the printed circuit board (28), wherein the at least one electronic component (22) is thermally conductively coupled to a cooling plate (14), which is integrated into at least one of the housing parts (12, 26), in particular into the upper housing part (12). At least one surface of the housing, which faces the interior of the housing, is at least partially coated with a thermally insulating coating (34).

Automotive camera (2) comprising a housing (4a, 4b) and a circuit board (7), which is arranged within a housing interior of the housing (4a, 4b). The circuit board (7) is connected to the housing (4a, 4b) by a pin (5). The automotive camera (2) is comprising a heat transfer element (6), wherein the pin (5) passes through the heat transfer element (6) and the heat transfer element (6) is in contact with the housing (4a, 4b) via a first surface (11a) of the heat transfer element (6) and with the circuit board (7) via a second surface (11b) of the heat transfer element (6).

In a computer-implemented method for providing data regarding an environment of a vehicle (1) for use by an extended reality software application, a pre-computing module (5) receives environmental sensor data (10) representing the environment directly or indirectly from an environmental sensor system (7) of the vehicle (1) and, depending on the environmental sensor data (10), assigns at least one class of at least one set of predefined classes to a current scene in the environment. The pre-computing module (5) provides at least one data package to an application module (6) for running the extended reality software application depending on the at least one data package. The at least one data package comprises at least a part of the environmental sensor data (10) or modified environmental sensor data (10) depending on the environmental sensor data (10) and the at least one class assigned to the current scene.

The invention relates to a method for generating a focus signal (25) for focusing of at least one camera (4) of an assistance system (2) of a motor vehicle (1) by an electronic computing device (6), comprising the steps of receiving a vehicle movement status signal (17), depending on the vehicle movement status signal (17) selecting a camera (4) from at least two cameras (4) of the motor vehicle (1); receiving at least one captured image (26) from the selected camera (4) of surroundings (5) of the motor vehicle (1); detecting at least one object (8) in the received image (26); determining a sharpness of that at least one object (8) in the captured image (26); and generating the focus signal (25) depending on the determined sharpness for sharpening the determined object (8). Furthermore, the present invention relates to a computer program product, a computer-readable storage medium, as well as to an electronic computing device (6).

A cooling plate (10) for tempering at least one computing unit (7, 8, 9, 35, 36) of an electronic computing device (3), comprising at least a first cooling plate element (16), which comprises a first cavity (20) for receiving a fluid from a temperature control unit (37) of the electronic computing device (3), wherein the first cooling plate element (16) is plate-like formed and comprises a first side (11) for arranging a first computing unit (7) and a second side (12), which is arranged opposite to the first side (11), for arranging a second computing unit (8), wherein the cooling plate (10) comprises a second cooling plate element (17), wherein the second cooling plate element (17) comprises a second cavity (21) for receiving a fluid from a temperature control unit (37), wherein the second cooling plate element (17) is plate-like formed, wherein the second cooling plate element (17) comprises at least a third side (13) for arranging a third computing unit (9), and wherein the second cooling plate element (17) is arranged at right angles to the first cooling plate element (16). Furthermore, the present invention relates to an arrangement (5), to a calculating unit (6), to an electronic computing device (10), and to a motor vehicle (1).

The invention relates to a method for presenting a surrounding image of surroundings (14) of a motor vehicle (1) with a virtual representation of the motor vehicle (1) during a start-up phase of the motor vehicle (1) by a support system (3) of the motor vehicle (1), comprising the steps of providing a two-dimensional image (9) of the motor vehicle (1) as the virtual representation by an electronic computing device (5) of the support system (3); capturing the current surroundings (14) of the motor vehicle (1) by at least one capturing device (4) of the support system (3); blending the two-dimensional image (9) with the current captured surroundings (14) to the surrounding image by the electronic computing device (5); and presenting the surrounding image during the start-up phase on a display device (6) of the support system (3). Furthermore, the present invention relates to a computer program product, a computer-readable storage medium, as well as to a support system (3).

The invention relates to a method, in particular a computer-implemented method, for assessing a driver intention of a driver (11) of a vehicle (1), comprising the following steps: a) providing vehicle parameter to a computing unit (5); b) providing parameter as to the vehicle driver (11) to the computing unit (5); c) assigning at least one first characterizing value (α) to at least one vehicle parameter; d) assigning at least one second characterizing value (α) to at least one vehicle driver parameter; e) assigning at least one first weighting factor (k) for at least one vehicle parameter, by which the first characterizing value (α) of the vehicle parameter is weighted; f) assigning at least one second weighting factor (k) for at least one vehicle driver parameter, by which the second characterizing value (α) of the vehicle driver parameter is weighted; g) assessing the driver intention by the computing unit (5) depending on the first and second characterizing values (α) and the first and second weighting factors (k).

The invention relates to a method for generating at least one control signal (3) for at least one functional device (4) of an at least in part automatically operated motor vehicle (1) by an assistance system (2) of the motor vehicle (1), comprising capturing surroundings (8) of the motor vehicle (1) by at least one first capturing device (5) of the assistance system (2); determining a current gaze (9) of a driver of the motor vehicle (1) by a second capturing device (6) of the assistance system (2); assigning the determined current gaze (9) to a current object (10) in the captured surroundings (8) by an electronic computing device (7) of the assistance system (2); analyzing the object (10) by the electronic computing device (7); providing a personalized action plan for an at least in part automated maneuver of the motor vehicle (1) depending on a user profile and the analyzed object (10); and generating the at least one control signal (3) for the at least one functional device (4) depending on the analyzed object (10) and the personalized action plan by the electronic computing device (7). Furthermore, the present invention relates to a computer program product, a computer-readable storage medium, as well as to an assistance system (2).

In a computer-implemented method for object detection in an environment of a vehicle (1), sensor data (11) generated by an environmental sensor system (3) of the vehicle (1) and representing the environment is received, and a trained machine learning model, MLM, (10) trained for object detection in a bird-eye-view-, BEV-, perspective is applied to the sensor data (11) to generate output data (12). The output data (12) comprises a location of an object (5) in the environment within a predefined grid (6) in the BEV-perspective. Therein, a cell size of the grid (6) increases with a distance from the vehicle (1) at least for a predefined direction