ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,445, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle and control method thereof" was invented by Sangwoo Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes at least one camera configured to photograph an image around the vehicle, a memory configured to store image data input from the at least one camera, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine that a foreign material is present on the at least one camera and to output a warning message to a user when a brightness change rate of at least one pixel among each pixel of...