ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,029, issued on April 21, was assigned to IMAGRY ISTAEL LTD. (Haifa, Israel).
"Parking spot detection" was invented by Itai Mesery (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Khaled Fahoum (Acre, Israel) and Ilan Shaviv (Shimshit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for parking slot detection. The method comprises obtaining an elevated perception map of a surrounding area around a vehicle. Each pixel in the elevated perception map is associated with a predetermined relative location to the vehicle. The elevated perception map comprises a plurality of functional layers. Values of pixels ...