US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 17 for "System and method for performing a camera to ground alignment for a vehicle" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,685, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for performing a camera to ground alignment for a vehicle" was invented by Binbin Li (Columbus, Ohio), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.) and Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a camera to ground alignment for a camera system on a vehicle. The method includes determining if enabling conditions have occurred and estimating a location of a vanishing point in a source image. Ground lines are selected based on a source image. A...