US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Jan. 28 for "Method for displaying a virtual view of the area surrounding a vehicle, computer program, control unit, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,738, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for displaying a virtual view of the area surrounding a vehicle, computer program, control unit, and vehicle" was invented by Friedrich Schenk (Schwieberdingen, Germany) and Raphael Cano (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying a virtual view of the area surrounding a vehicle, in particular a surround view or panoramic view. The method comprises: capturing a camera image of a part of the surroundings using a camera having a wide-angle lens; ascertaining an item of image information dependent on the captured camera...