ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,591, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with traffic light recognition model" was invented by Dae Ung Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaewook Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of detecting a traffic light with an object recognition model configured to recognize traffic lights. The method includes: obtaining an input image from a camera included in a vehicle, the input image among frames, including previous frames, captured by the camera; estimating, based on prior information about traffic light objects, a first re...