US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Adaptive optimal viewpoint selection for a vehicle display" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,823, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive optimal viewpoint selection for a vehicle display" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Yashanshu Jain (Dearborn, Mich.), Shaheer Zafar (Chicago) and Gaurav Sharma (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods disclosed herein provide an optimal viewpoint from which a virtual camera views a scene in an environment surrounding an ego vehicle. A first value is determined indicating an extent to which a first view from a default viewpoint of the virtual camera satisfies first and second view obs...