US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Jan. 27 for "Object detection method and object tracking device using lidar sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,593, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object detection method and object tracking device using lidar sensor" was invented by Yo Han Sung (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Ju Heon Baeg (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection method using a lidar sensor of an embodiment includes determining whether a box of a target object is a box in which an overlapping object present therein can be deleted on the basis of shape information of the target object obtained by the lidar sensor, and generating a box track of the target object after remo...