US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Method to detect a trailer coupler position using camera-based triangulation, optimization and filtering" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,255, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method to detect a trailer coupler position using camera-based triangulation, optimization and filtering" was invented by Jiabin Shen (Burnaby, Canada), Bo Yu (Troy, Mich.) and Kenneth Weber (Ajax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting and utilizing a 3-dimensional (3D) position of a coupler of a trailer may include calculating a motion of a camera mounted to a vehicle; determining 2-dimensional (2D) positions of the coupler within input images captured by the camera; estimating 3D estimated positions of the coupler based on ...