US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for determining slope of road using side view camera of vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,378, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for determining slope of road using side view camera of vehicle" was invented by Moonsub Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Nayeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dae Hyun Ji (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for determining a slope of a road using a side view camera of a vehicle, the method includes identifying a road image collected from a side view camera, dividing the road image into a plurality of regions, calculating a slope of a road for each of the plurality of regions based ...