Patent ID: 11900687
Assignee: CANOO TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
obtaining a fisheye image of a scene around a vehicle;
identifying multiple regions of interest in the fisheye image;
applying one or more transformations to transform and rotate one or more of the regions of interest in the fisheye image to produce one or more transformed regions;
generating a collage image comprising at least one portion based on the fisheye image and one or more portions containing the one or more transformed regions; and
performing object detection to identify one or more objects captured in the collage image;
wherein the multiple regions of interest comprise different portions of the fisheye image that are identified as potentially containing one or more objects of interest; and
wherein at least one region of interest identified as potentially containing at least one object of interest is located within another region of interest identified as potentially containing the at least one object of interest and includes a driving lane closest to the vehicle.