US Patent Issued to AMPERE on Sept. 16 for "System and method for computing a final image of an area surrounding a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,722, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"System and method for computing a final image of an area surrounding a vehicle" was invented by Andrea Ancora (Golfe Juan, France) and Fabrizio Tomatis (Saint Laurent du Var, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method computes a final image of an area surrounding a vehicle, from at least one image captured in a first angular portion of the area surrounding the vehicle by a camera and a distance between the vehicle and a point in the surrounding area, which distance is determined, in a second angular portion located in one of the first angular...