ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,987, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for identifying edges of curbs" was invented by Peter Pozsegovics (Budapest, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying edges of curbs in an environment of a mobile platform. The method includes: providing at least one optical image of the environment of the mobile platform; determining linear structures in the at least one optical image; providing a topographic profile of a ground surface of the environment of the mobile platform; projecting the linear structures into the topographic profile of the ground surface; verifying t...