ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,037, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for recognizing obstacles for a vehicle" was invented by Ho Pyong Gil (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for recognizing an obstacle of a vehicle includes a camera for acquiring an image, a detection device for extracting an object by applying a convolutional neural network to the image, a center calculation device for estimating a center point and a region outside the center point of the extracted object, an uncertainty determination device for determining whether the estimated center point and region ...