US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Feb. 11 for "Generation of artificial color images from narrow spectral band data aboard a camera-equipped vehicle" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,741, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Generation of artificial color images from narrow spectral band data aboard a camera-equipped vehicle" was invented by Tzvi Philipp (Bet Shemesh, Israel), Eran Kishon (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Michael Slutsky (Kefar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual perception system includes a scanning camera, color sensor with color filter array (CFA), and a classifier node. The camera captures full color pixel images of a target object, e.g., a traffic light, and processes the pixel images through a narrow band pass filter (BPF), such that t...