ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,926, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for recognizing illumination state of traffic lights, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Shih-Chao Chien (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chin-Pin Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-borne method for recognizing the illumination state of traffic lights even against a backlighting of strong sunlight or other light source obtains a first image of a set of traffic lights in a road traffic environment. A segmentation map is acquired by dividing a first region from the first image, and an ill...