US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Nov. 25 for "Perturbative alignment correction for surround cameras" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,133, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Perturbative alignment correction for surround cameras" was invented by Michael Slutsky (Kefar-Saba, Israel), Yuval Zelig (Ramat Gan, Israel), Lior Stein (Ramat HaSharon, Israel) and Avi Resler (Herzilya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for correcting alignment of images received from cameras by estimating camera alignment parameters based on perturbative correction such that corrected alignment parameters satisfy pairwise epipolar constraints as well as global loop closure constraints. The corrected alignment parameters ...