ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,197, issued on May 27, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA INVESTMENTS LLC (Reston, Va.).
"Systems and methods for validating camera calibration in real-time" was invented by Hsin Miao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hatem Alismail (Pittsburgh), Dikpal Reddy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Richard L. Kwant (San Bruno, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining whether a camera of an autonomous vehicle (AV) is calibrated are disclosed. The method includes using image frames captured by a camera of the AV and LIDAR point clouds captured by a LIDAR system of the AV to calculate an AV pose calibration metric. The meth...