ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,598, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for object detection" was invented by Hyun Kyu Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection apparatus includes a sensor device and a processor. The sensor device obtains an image. The processor obtains a first bounding box and a second bounding box based on a learning result of the image, calculates a two-dimensional overlapping degree between the first bounding box and the second bounding box, calculates a depth deviation bet...