US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 17 for "Image processing apparatus and image processing method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,358, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image processing apparatus and image processing method thereof" was invented by Hyuk Zae Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus used in a vehicle includes an image acquisition device that obtains an input image through a device in a vehicle or an external server, a feature extraction device that extracts feature data from the input image, and image recognition logic that recognizes an object from the feature data. The feature extraction device generates a transform image usi...