US Patent Issued to Qualcomm Auto on Oct. 6 for "Vision system and method for a motor vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,557, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Qualcomm Auto Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Vision system and method for a motor vehicle" was invented by Gustav Lars Henrik Jagbrant (Linkoping, Sweden) and Per Cronvall (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision system for a motor vehicle comprises an imaging apparatus (11) adapted to capture images (30) from a surrounding of the motor vehicle, and a data processing unit (14) adapted to perform image processing on images (30) captured by said imaging apparatus (11). The data processing unit (14) comprises a traffic sign detector (31) adapted to detect traffic signs in images...