ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,589, issued on May 26, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Ju Heon Baeg (Seoul, South Korea) and Mi Rim Noh (Jeonju-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus may include a light detection and ranging device (LiDAR) and a processor. According to a method, the processor may obtain a plurality of LiDAR data points by removing points with a specific height or higher from a point cloud corresponding to an external vehicle, may generate a bounding box based on contour points, which indica...