US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method for blind-spot monitoring of vehicle based on rear camera" (South Korean, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,319, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for blind-spot monitoring of vehicle based on rear camera" was invented by Jeong Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Run Fei Wang (Shandong, China), Jin Wook Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Ming Xia Xu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides apparatus and method for blind-spot monitoring of vehicle based on rear camera. A blind spot view monitoring apparatus, for a vehicle based on a rear camera, may include an image acquisition unit, a control unit and a display uni...