US Patent Issued to Valeo Vision on July 21 for "Method for detecting an object in a road surface, method for autonomous driving and automotive lighting device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,700, issued on July 21, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Method for detecting an object in a road surface, method for autonomous driving and automotive lighting device" was invented by Mickael Mimoun (Bobigny, France) and Yasser Almehio (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an object in a road surface. The method includes projecting a light pattern on the road surface, acquiring an image of the projected light pattern, detecting a shadow in the acquired image and using some features of the shadow to obtain information about features of an object. The invention also provides a method fo...