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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2024
Thinkware Corporation, Seongnam-si, KR;
Ki Wook Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hye Kyung Byun, Seongnam-si, KR;
Tae Kyu Han, Seongnam-si, KR;
Shin Hyoung Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jeong Kyu Kang, Seongnam-si, KR;
THINKWARE CORPORATION, Seongnam-si, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image processing method. The method includes the steps of receiving an image obtained from a plurality of vehicles positioned on a road, storing the received images according to acquisition information of the received images; determining a reference image and a target image based on images having the same acquisition information among the stored images, performing an image registration using a plurality of feature points extracted from each of the determined reference image and target image, performing a transparency process for each of the reference image and the target image performed with the image registration, extracting static objects from the transparency-processed image, and comparing the extracted static objects with objects on an electronic map pre-stored to updating the electronic map data, when the objects on the electronic map data pre-stored are different from the extracted static objects.