ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,158, issued on March 11, was assigned to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER (Lugong, Taiwan).
"Object detection method" was invented by Yun-Ling Chang (Lugong, Taiwan), Yi-Feng Su (Lugong, Taiwan) and Ying-Ren Chen (Lugong, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection method includes steps that are to be performed for each piece of point cloud data received from a lidar module, of selecting a first to-be-combined image from among images received from a camera device that corresponds in time to the piece of point cloud data, selecting a second to-be-combined image from among the images that is the Nth image before the ...