US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 20 for "Surround view monitoring apparatus and method with fault tolerance" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,945, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Surround view monitoring apparatus and method with fault tolerance" was invented by Min Chul Kang (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surround view monitoring apparatus with fault tolerance and an operating method thereof. The surround view monitoring apparatus includes a plurality of SVM cameras, a SVM controller and an SVM display. The plurality of SVM cameras are configured to capture surrounding areas of a vehicle. The SVM controller is configured to determine whether at least one of the plu...