US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on May 12 for "Method to detect lane segments for creating high definition maps" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,518, issued on May 12, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method to detect lane segments for creating high definition maps" was invented by Willibald Brems (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Francesco Ferroni (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for detecting lane segments in an image for creating high-definition (HD) maps. A neural network can be used to classify a pixel of an image of a location as belonging to a driving lane. If the pixel belongs to a first boundary line of the driving lane, it is labeled accordingly. Based on the l...