US Patent Issued to Stoneridge on Dec. 30 for "Camera monitor system with camera wing unfolding status detection based upon image processing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,913, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stoneridge Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Camera monitor system with camera wing unfolding status detection based upon image processing" was invented by Yu He (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Utkarsh Sharma (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Liang Ma (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of checking wing position in a CMS includes performing a calibration of a wing position supporting a camera relative to a vehicle to provide a desired field of view by capturing multiple images at different lighting conditions, extracting and storing a reference feature from each of the multiple images, triggeri...