US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia, Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for fusing data from LiDAR and camera" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,308, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for fusing data from LiDAR and camera" was invented by Sung Moon Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ki Chun Jo (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Su Ha (Seoul, South Korea), Ha Min Song (Yeosu-si, South Korea), Chan Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Eun Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR and camera data fusion method includes generating a voxel-wise feature map based on point cloud data of a LiDAR sensor, generating...