US Patent Issued to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology on Oct. 28 for "Traffic hand signal detection system and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,333, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Traffic hand signal detection system and method thereof" was invented by Yong Gu Lee (Gwangju, South Korea) and Tae Seung Baek (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic hand signal detection system includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire a photographed image from a camera photographing a predetermined range; an image classifier configured to classify an arm motion from the photographed image provided from the imaging unit by imparting a class; a detection module configured to detect the arm motion ...