US Patent Issued to Stoneridge on July 21 for "Camera monitor system with camera wing unfolding status detection based upon image processing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,701, issued on July 21, was assigned to Stoneridge Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Camera monitor system with camera wing unfolding status detection based upon image processing" was invented by Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.) and Liang Ma (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of checking wing position in a camera monitor system includes calibrating a wing position that supports a camera relative to a vehicle to provide a desired field of view, extracting a reference feature from a calibrated image from the camera, storing the reference feature, triggering a wing position check, capturing a current image from the came...