US Patent Issued to Distance Technologies on May 5 for "Systems and methods for context-aware visibility improvements in low-visibility conditions" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,341, issued on May 5, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Systems and methods for context-aware visibility improvements in low-visibility conditions" was invented by Joona Petrell (Tampere, Finland) and Thomas Carlsson (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving visibility in low-visibility conditions, being implemented in vehicle, including visible-light camera(s); depth camera(s); display unit; optical combiner; and processor(s). Processor configured to: obtain information indicative of relative position of head or eyes of user(s); control visible-light and depth camera(s) to capture, cont...