ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,988, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lytx Inc. (San Diego).
"Camera height estimation" was invented by Bhawani Shankar (Bhagalpur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calculating height and offset of a vehicle-mounted camera includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive image data from a camera mounted on a vehicle. The processor is configured to determine a set of lane lines using the image, determine points for calculating height and offset of the camera using a pair of lane lines, and calculate the height and the offset of the camera using the points."
The patent was filed on Aug. 2,...