US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOBIS on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus for real-time image-based lighting of 3D surround view" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,215, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for real-time image-based lighting of 3D surround view" was invented by Yeo Min Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-based lighting method includes: receiving an input image obtained by capturing a scene of one of a front, rear and side of a vehicle; generating a panoramic image by mapping a first coordinate of each pixel constituting a region of interest of the received input image to a corresponding second coordinate using a lookup table; analyzing histograms of red, green, and blue of an upper re...