ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,003, issued on May 13, was assigned to GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY Ltd. (Hebei, China).

"Method for identifying road markings and monocular camera" was invented by Shunji Miyahara (Hebei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for identifying road markings, and a monocular camera is provided. The method includes: acquiring an original image captured by a monocular camera on a vehicle; determining a middle region where an object is located and left and right regions on both sides of the middle region from the original image; acquiring an image intensity distribution along a vertical direction of the original image in ...