ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,520, issued on May 12, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).
"Detection of intersection points of road marking lines" was invented by Timo Iken (Wolfsburg, Germany), Stefan Wappler (Berlin), Roland Kube (Schwulper, Germany) and Niklas Koch (Tappenbeck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting at least one intersection point of road marking lines, wherein a computing unit of a transportation vehicle receives a camera image and identifies a first road marking line based on the camera image. Using the computing unit, a search region is automatically defined in an environment of the first road marking line, and an ...