ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,291, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THINKWARE Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Method, apparatus, electronic device, computer program, and computer readable recording medium for measuring inter-vehicle distance based on vehicle image" was invented by Shin Hyoung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Tae Kyu Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring an inter-vehicle distance includes acquiring driving image photographed by a photographing device of a first vehicle which is being driven; detecting a second vehicle from the acquired driving image; detecting first feature points of a second ve...