ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,061, issued on March 11, was assigned to UVeye Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Detection and estimation of defects in vehicle's exterior" was invented by Dan Segal (Ra'anana, Israel), Gideon Carmon (Arad, Israel), Ron Shmuel Sudar (Netanya, Israel) and Paz Ilan (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating dimensions of vehicle's exterior defects based on reference dimensions comprising analyzing one or more images captured by one or more image sensors deployed to depict a vehicle to identify one or more reference feature relating to the vehicle, obtaining real-world size of the reference feature(s), computing a ...