ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,575, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HANWHA VISION Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"System and methods for car color detection using car make logo detection" was invented by Arian Hosseini (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surveillance camera capable of detecting a color of a vehicle using vehicle logo detection. This specification describes a method that, instead of processing an entire image of a vehicle, detects the vehicle's logo and expands a bounding box of the detected logo to analyze a dominant color within the expanded bounding box for higher accuracy. During a dominant color analysis p...