US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for generating depth map" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,472, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating depth map" was invented by Jang Yoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Woong Hyun Ka (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Sol Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jin Woo Bae (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and apparatus for generating a depth map, the method includes obtaining a LiDAR point cloud generated by a LiDAR, obtaining a 3D bounding box for at least a portion of the LiDAR point cloud, generating a first vehicle mask corresponding to the 3D bounding box from an ...