US Patent Issued to BLACK SESAME TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 20 for "System and method for extrinsic parameter calibration and self-inspection of on-vehicle cameras" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,799, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BLACK SESAME TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"System and method for extrinsic parameter calibration and self-inspection of on-vehicle cameras" was invented by Chao Wang (Shanghai), Zhaowei Xin (Shanghai) and Donghui Wu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system and method for calibrating extrinsic parameters of a camera mounted on a vehicle. While the vehicle is parked, the camera captures an image of a plurality of feature points with known world coordinates on a ground plane. The system determines pixel coordinates of the plurality of feature poin...