ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,295, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Image-based generation of descriptive and perceptive messages of automotive scenes" was invented by Roy Uziel (Givatayim, Israel), Oded Bialer (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Claudia Goldman-Shenhar (Mevasseret Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a traffic object detection module detecting traffic objects in an environment; an attention map highlighting module generating an attention map, highlighting relevant ones of the traffic objects or regions in which the relevant ones of the traffic objects are located; an image encode...