ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,187, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SL Mirrortech Corp. (Siheung-si, South Korea).
"Surrounding surveillance apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Youngnam Shin (Siheung-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surrounding surveillance apparatus for a vehicle includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image in a vicinity of the vehicle; a vehicle detection unit configured to detect a nearby vehicle in the image and sets a detection region corresponding to the detected nearby vehicle; and an image processing unit configured to adjust values of pixels in at least some portions within the detection region. In parti...