ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,683, issued on March 18, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Determining a source of danger on a roadway" was invented by Anton Bruch (Berlin) and Fabian Diegmann (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for determining a source of danger on a roadway in a detection area in front of or behind a vehicle with the aid of a camera of the vehicle, an image of the detection area is captured with the aid of the camera, image data corresponding to the image are generated, a first image area of the image is determined with the aid of the image data using a neural network, which first image area corresponds...