Patent Document ID: 8854455
Application ID: 12989921
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for processing image information recorded from a vehicle, the method comprising: detecting at least parts of a windshield wiper in the image information; using results of the detecting to identify portions of a recorded image that have recently been swept by the windshield wiper; and dividing the image information into higher-quality and lower-quality image information, wherein the image information is divided into image information whose quality is higher than a predefined threshold value and image information whose quality is lower than the predefined threshold value, wherein the dividing of the image information into higher-quality and lower-quality image information takes into account at least the presence of a moisture on the windshield, and wherein image information corresponding to image portions that were identified as recently swept are assigned a higher quality compared to image information corresponding to image portions that have not recently been swept.