ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,262, issued on Nov. 3.
"Localizing a fifth wheel hitch coupler of a motor vehicle" was invented by Narmatha Gopa (Chennai, India) and Ana Robleda (Tuam, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a computer-implemented method for localizing a fifth wheel hitch coupler (3) of a motor vehicle (1), a camera image (8) depicting the hitch coupler (3) is received from a camera (2) of the motor vehicle (1) and a top view image is generated by projecting the camera image (8) to a plane, which is perpendicular to a predefined height axis of the motor vehicle (1). A contour map (13) representing a contour (14) of a coupler throat (4) o...