ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,184, issued on July 1, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for suppressing noise in 3D road surface reconstruction" was invented by Anping Mao (Suzhou, China), Andreas Wimmer (Suzhou, China) and Wei Liu (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and computer program product for suppressing noise in 3D road surface reconstruction. The method includes: acquiring an image related to a road surface; extracting horizontal line information and ROI (region of interest) information from the image, wherein the horizontal line information comprises ...