US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 15 for "System and method of automatic image view alignment for camera-based road condition detection on a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,572, issued on July 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method of automatic image view alignment for camera-based road condition detection on a vehicle" was invented by Qingrong Zhao (Warren, Mich.), Farui Peng (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi (Washington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of automatic image view alignment for a camera-based road condition detection on a vehicle. The method includes transforming a fisheye image into a non-distorted subject image, comparing the subject image with a reference image, aligning the subject image with the r...