US Patent Issued to Ambarella International on May 20 for "Automatic collision detection, warning, avoidance and prevention in parked cars" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,475, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ambarella International LP (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic collision detection, warning, avoidance and prevention in parked cars" was invented by Shimon Pertsel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Greg Hedman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a capture device and a processor. The capture device may be configured to generate pixel data corresponding to an exterior view from a vehicle. The processor may be configured to perform operations on video frames generated from the pixel data to detect a moving object in the video frames, determine a predicted path of the mov...