US Patent Issued to Stoneridge on Jan. 13 for "Camera monitoring system including trailer presence detection using optical flow" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,022, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Stoneridge Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Camera monitoring system including trailer presence detection using optical flow" was invented by Wenpeng Wei (East Lansing, Mich.), Liang Ma (Rochester, Mich.) and Troy Otis Cooprider (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a trailer presence includes identifying a region of interest within a video feed from one or more cameras secured to a vehicle. The video feed depicts a scene having a first pixel area, and the region of interest corresponds to a portion of the scene having a second pixel area that is less than the first pixel...