US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 16 for "Vehicle and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,758, issued on June 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Eunseok Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Minjun Chun (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jaehong Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea) and Jinho Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of a vehicle includes: detecting straight lines in an image input from a camera; generating a vanishing point candidate based on an intersection of the straight lines; accumulating the vanishing point candidate; generating a vanishing point accumulation map based on ...