US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 30 for "Apparatus and method for recognizing an object" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,723, issued on June 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for recognizing an object" was invented by Jun Hyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Chul Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Hyuk Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Koan Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for recognizing an object includes a camera that obtains a 2D image, a lidar that obtains a 3D image, and a processor. The processor generates a bird's-eye view (BEV) feature map by extracting features from a two-dimensional plane BEV generated based on 3D inform...