ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,775, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Vision system and method for a motor vehicle" was invented by David Forslund (Linkoping, Sweden) and Jon Bjarkefur (Linkoping, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision system (10) for a motor vehicle includes an imaging apparatus (11) adapted to capture images from a surrounding of the motor vehicle, and a processing device (14) adapted to execute an object detection code (15) to detect objects in the surrounding of the motor vehicle by processing images captured by the imaging apparatus (11), and to calculate for each detected object its longitudinal distance ...