Motor vehicle surrounding detecting method for use in area of driver assistance system, involves processing data for detecting objects and free area in surrounding of motor vehicle, and dividing surrounding into cells with attributes

摘要

The method involves processing data for detecting objects in the surrounding of a motor vehicle and processing data for detecting free area in the surrounding. A probability of an area, which is free in the surrounding, is provided. The data for detecting the objects are merged with the data for detecting the free areas. The surrounding is divided into cells that are provided with attributes. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a device for detecting the surrounding (2) a computer program product with program codes that are stored on a computer based data carrier when a computer program is executed on a computer or a corresponding computer unit in a device for detecting the surrounding.