US Patent Issued to AMPERE, NISSAN MOTOR on March 18 for "Method for detecting an exit lane for a motor vehicle" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,705, issued on March 18, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method for detecting an exit lane for a motor vehicle" was invented by Raphael Quilliard (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an exit lane for a motor vehicle includes: detecting, in images acquired by an onboard camera, marking lines on the ground on the right and on the left laterally delimiting the main traffic lane, determining first and second heading angles with respect to the detected marking lines, providing a first, standard exit lane detection state, based on th...