US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 3 for "Systems and methods for vehicle camera obstruction detection" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,246, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for vehicle camera obstruction detection" was invented by Hatem Alismail (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system such as an autonomous vehicle's perception system will identify and classify an obstruction in a field of view of an image capturing device. The system will receive a sequence of image frames from the image capturing device. For each of the image frames, the system will segment the image frame into a regions of interest (ROIs), and the system will use a classifier to assign a classification to each ROI. Th...