ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,698, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Robust stereo camera image processing method and system" was invented by Thomas Fechner (Wasserburg, Germany), Stefan Heinrich (Kressbronn, Germany), Dieter Krokel (Eriskirch, Germany) and Elias Strigel (Wangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and system for extracting disparity information out of a pair of stereo camera images for processing images of camera sensors for Automated Driving or Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in a vehicle. The method includes: a) receiving a pair of un...