ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,956, issued on May 13, was assigned to AUTOBRAINS TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Calculating a distance between a vehicle and objects" was invented by Adi Gotliber (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alexander Dikman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Jonathan Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating a distance between a vehicle camera and an object, the method may include: (a) obtaining an image that was acquired by the vehicle camera of a vehicle; the image captures the horizon, the object, and road lane boundaries; (b) determining an initial row-location horizon estimate and a row-location contact point estimate,...