US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,668, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hayeon Lee (Gwacheon-Si, South Korea) and Deuk Hyeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatus and method for determining a mask region for a side field of view of a vehicle. A vehicle may include an image capturing device configured to acquire a plurality of images associated with a side field of view of the vehicle. The vehicle may generate, based on accumulated edge values, a first map and generate, based on accumulated b...