US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY on Jan. 20 for "System for avoiding accidents caused by wild animals crossing at dusk and at night" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,906, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"System for avoiding accidents caused by wild animals crossing at dusk and at night" was invented by Christian Scharfenberger (Lindau, Germany) and Michelle Karg (Lindau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method and a device for avoiding accidents caused by wild animals crossing at dusk and at night by a vehicle-mounted camera system. The method for the brightness conversion of input image data of the camera into output image data includes the following steps: a) capturing input image data of a current...