ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,318, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Occluded object detection and correction for vehicle applications" was invented by Deeksha Dixit (San Diego), Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for vehicle driving assistance systems that support image processing. In a first aspect, a method is provided that includes generating a top view image of an object using a plurality of images captured from different views. The method involves determining portions of the images that depict the objec...