ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,084, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle vision system including camera to ground alignment using bird's eye view image" was invented by Mohsen Khalili (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.) and Xiaobo Guo (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision system for a vehicle includes a camera configured to generate one of distorted and undistorted images. An alignment system is configured to generate a region of interest (ROI) for the camera, generate a bird's eye view (BEV) homography to con...