US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Provide parallel road information in map to improve sign fusion algorithms" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,465, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Provide parallel road information in map to improve sign fusion algorithms" was invented by Michael Wolfgang Bachmann (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to obtain information related to parallel roads to rule out inapplicable/irrelevant traffic signs. In one aspect, a UE detects at least one traffic sign is present on a set of parallel roads based on a set of images and map data. The UE identifies whether the at least one traffic sign is associated with a current path traveled by a vehicle based on the detection t...