The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2012
Andreas U. Kuehnle, Villa Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Lawson, Corona, CA (US);
Dilip Swaminathan, Irvine, CA (US);
Cathy L. Boon, Orange, CA (US);
Chandra Sekhar Gatla, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Hans M. Molin, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Ken D. AU, Irvine, CA (US);
Andreas U. Kuehnle, Villa Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Lawson, Corona, CA (US);
Dilip Swaminathan, Irvine, CA (US);
Cathy L. Boon, Orange, CA (US);
Chandra Sekhar Gatla, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Hans M. Molin, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Ken D. Au, Irvine, CA (US);
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, Elyria, OH (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, an image based vehicle detection and measuring apparatus that employs an accelerated, structured, search method is described for quickly finding the extrema of a multivariable function. The input domain of the function is determined. The method exploits information as it becomes available, calculating a best possible value with the information available so far, and terminating further evaluation when the best possible value does not exceed the extreme value found so far. Ordering and best guess schemes are added to the best possible value idea to accelerate it further. The method is applied to speed up an image processing problem, an example of which is given, but has general application, for example, in fields such as vehicle detection.