ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,428, issued on March 4, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).
"System and method for lateral vehicle detection" was invented by Zhipeng Yan (San Diego), Lingting Ge (San Diego), Pengfei Chen (San Diego) and Panqu Wang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for lateral vehicle detection is disclosed. A particular embodiment can be configured to: receive lateral image data from at least one laterally-facing camera associated with an autonomous vehicle; warp the lateral image data based on a line parallel to a side of the autonomous vehicle; perform object extraction on the warped lateral image data to identi...