ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,491, issued on March 11, was assigned to DSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Method for generating a bird's eye view image" was invented by Tobias Biester (Karlsruhe, Germany), Boris Neubert (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Dennis Keck (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a bird's eye view image of a scene includes: (a) acquiring at least one lidar frame comprising points with inherent distance information and at least one camera image of the scene; (b) generating a mesh representation of the scene by using the at least one lidar frame, the mesh representation representing surfaces s...