ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,903, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Road surface estimation using vehicle detection" was invented by Gustav Lars Henrik Jagbrant (Linkoping, Sweden), Per Cronvall (Linkoping, Sweden) and Gustav Nils Ture Persson (Ljungsbro, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to autonomous driving and driver assistance systems. In some aspects, a device associated with an ego vehicle may obtain a series of images that depict a reference vehicle traveling along a road segment ahead of the ego vehicle. The device may estimate, based on the series of images, a siz...