US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for evaluating maps for autonomous driving and vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,275, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for evaluating maps for autonomous driving and vehicle" was invented by Philipp Friedrich (Shanghai), Qianshan Li (Shanghai), Gary Lu (Shanghai) and Jenny Yuan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus evaluates a map for autonomous driving. The method acquires pixel points of lane lines of a road in a static map; acquires pixel points of lane lines of the road in a real-time map; forms first fitted curves of the lane lines in the static map by fitting the acquired pixel points of the lane lines in the static map ...