US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Sept. 23 for "System and method for generating parking availability information" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,097, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System and method for generating parking availability information" was invented by Cheonin Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Daesub Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Woong Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating parking availability information according to the present invention includes detecting at least one already parked vehicle from an image captured by a camera; converting object area information corresponding to the detected parked vehicle into real distance information; ...