ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,052, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Avikus Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating surround view monitoring image for ship" was invented by Dae Yong Han (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Chan Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Seong Jong Jo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus of generating a surround view monitoring (SVM) image. The method includes: obtaining installation information of an actual camera installed on a ship; setting a virtual camera to orient toward a ground plane perpendicularly within a world coordinate system; calculating ...