US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Nov. 25 for "Method for extracting outline of object in vehicle and vehicle thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,026, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for extracting outline of object in vehicle and vehicle thereof" was invented by Mi Rim Noh (Jeonju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object outline extracting method for a vehicle includes: detecting distributed positions of points in global quadrants generated based on a subject vehicle, as light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data is received; analyzing the distributed positions of the points and determining whether the points are distributed in a preset area based on a result value obtained fro...