US Patent Issued to SICK on May 26 for "Environment monitoring apparatus and method for operating an environment monitoring apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,009, issued on May 26, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Environment monitoring apparatus and method for operating an environment monitoring apparatus" was invented by Thomas Dieng (Freiburg, Germany), Mareike Stulz (Waldkirch, Germany) and Matthias Heinz (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environment monitoring apparatus for vehicles comprises a stereo camera that has two fisheye lenses, an image sensor apparatus having at least two sensor regions for detecting optical signals of the fisheye lenses in a respective one of the sensor regions and for generating and outputting image data signals based on t...