ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,569, issued on Oct. 20.
"Automatically adjusting displayed camera angle and distance to objects" was invented by Catherine Marie Amodeo (Livonia, Mich.) and David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for detecting that the vehicle is in a reverse mode, receiving a road surface topology, determining a feature of interest is within a collected image and outside a displayed field of view (FOV) for a rear-facing camera due to the road surface topology, adjusting the displayed FOV for the rear-facing camera to place the feature of interest within ...