ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,840, issued on May 26, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA COPORATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for generating ground truth data and a method and apparatus for estimating a vanishing point using the same" was invented by Jung Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Hun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hoon Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for estimating a vanishing point are provided. The method includes receiving an input image and estimating a vanishing point for the input image, using an artificial intelligence networ...