ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,539, issued on June 24, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Calibration of camera-based height assessment" was invented by Thomas J. Hermann (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distances between spatial features such as a clearance height of a bridge over a roadway are determined based on camera images captured in a moving vehicle. A stream of images is captured. The presence of bridge overpasses is recognized in the images. A range between the vehicle and the bridge overpasses is detected at which each respective image is captured. A height of each respective bridge overpass is photometrically de...