ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,935, issued on June 16, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for recognizing horizontal road markings" was invented by Azhar Sultan (Tunbridge Wells, Great Britain), Joel Janai (Leonberg, Germany), Tamas Kapelner (Hildesheim, Germany) and Thomas Wenzel (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing horizontal road markings and determining the course thereof. The method includes the steps of capturing an image of a road, and dividing a central region of the image into a plurality of vertically superimposed cells and assigning to each cell predefined lines that are variously aligned...