ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,917, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for automatic parking system" was invented by Chuan Xiao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for an automatic parking system. The method includes: obtaining a parking-line segmentation image through a segmentation neural network; preprocessing the parking-line segmentation image to obtain at least one parking-line skeleton image; and calculating straight-line equations and straight-line endpoints for parking lines in the parking-line segmentation image based ...