US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on June 30 for "Apparatus for obstacle detection based on relative image motion" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,720, issued on June 30, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Apparatus for obstacle detection based on relative image motion" was invented by Liang Zhang (Ottawa) and Nikhil Gupta (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular vision system includes a camera that captures image data. The vehicular vision system, responsive to processing by an image processor of image data captured by the camera, detects a plurality of objects present within the field of view of the camera. The vehicular vision system, responsive to detecting the objects, generates a plurality of intra-hypotheses. The vehicular ...