US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 23 for "Method and system for processing an image of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,745, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for processing an image of a vehicle" was invented by Gyun Ha Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Dong Hyuk Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method of a vehicle includes identifying an intensity of light emitted to the vehicle based on an output value of an illuminance sensor of the vehicle, obtaining an image through a camera of the vehicle, identifying whether sunlight is backlight for the camera of the vehicle based on at least one of an output valu...