US Patent Issued to Motional on March 17 for "Image based LiDAR-camera synchronization" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,054, issued on March 17, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Image based LiDAR-camera synchronization" was invented by QinYuan Yin (San Mateo, Calif.), Michael V. Morelli (Pittsburgh) and Changhao Li (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for image based LiDAR-camera synchronization. An example method may include: obtaining an image from an image sensor; detecting at least one edge of a pattern in the image, the pattern corresponding to at least one electromagnetic wave emitted from a rangefinder system; determining an offset between the pattern and the image ba...