US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on Aug. 25 for "Method and system for ascertaining the position and alignment of a virtual camera of a surroundings monitoring system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,406, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for ascertaining the position and alignment of a virtual camera of a surroundings monitoring system" was invented by Markus Eich (Ulm, Germany), Ulrich Schaub (Ulm, Germany) and Wolfgang Fey (Bodolz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for ascertaining a virtual camera position and camera alignment in order to allow the surroundings of a vehicle to be represented on a display unit of the vehicle on the basis of this virtual camera position and camera alignment." ...