US Patent Issued to VIA TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 6 for "Method for online obtaining an initially extrinsic parameter of fisheye-lens cameras applied to surround-view stitching" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,416, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VIA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method for online obtaining an initially extrinsic parameter of fisheye-lens cameras applied to surround-view stitching" was invented by Fan Dong (Beijing) and Chao-Chin Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is provided in a simulation platform for optimizing the extrinsic parameters of fisheye-lens cameras installed on a vehicle. A simulated vehicle is established according to vehicular characteristics of associated actual vehicle over the simulated platform, thereby a lot of simulated checkerboard cali...