ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,126, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Obstacle detection method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Yuan Shen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle detection method can improve the accuracy of determining a relative positional relationship between two or more obstacles that are obstructed or obscured during automated driving. A road scene image of a road where a target vehicle is located is acquired. Obstacle recognition is performed to obtain region information and depth-of-field information corresponding to each obstac...