ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,244, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd. (Tuam, Ireland).
"System and method for making reliable stitched images" was invented by Mahesh Kondiparthi (Chennai, India) and Fergal O'malley (Tuam, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for detecting an artefact in a stitched image, comprises: acquiring component images of an environment from respective vehicle mounted cameras with overlapping fields of view; forming (410) a stitched image from the component images; processing (420) at least a portion of the stitched image corresponding to the overlapping field of view with a classifier to provide a lis...