US Patent Issued to 42DOT on April 7 for "Method and device for improving object recognition rate of self-driving car" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,244, issued on April 7, was assigned to 42DOT INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for improving object recognition rate of self-driving car" was invented by Myoung Hoon Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yun Lee (Gwangju, South Korea) and Phuoc Tien Nguyen (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of improving an object recognition rate including recognizing a first object in a first image obtained while driving, detecting whether the recognized first object has disappeared for a preset time period and then reappeared in the first image, based on detecting that the first object has reappeared, calcu...