ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,702, issued on July 21, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Method and apparatus for processing an image of a road having a road marker to identify a region of the image which represents the road marker" was invented by Marzena Banach (Puszczykowo, Poland), Piotr Bogacki (Cracow, Poland), Rafal Dlugosz (Lubon, Poland) and Waldemar Dworakowski (Cracow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing an image of a road having a road marker acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera to generate boundary data indicating a boundary of the road marker region of the image which represents the road mark...