US Patent 11594036 Advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) operation utilizing algorithmic skyline detection

Disclosed are techniques for improving an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) by pre-processing image data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving one or more image frames captured by an image sensor installed on a vehicle; identifying a position of a skyline in the one or more image frames, the position comprising a horizontal position of the skyline; cropping one or more future image frames based on the position of the skyline, the cropping generating cropped images comprising a subset of the corresponding future image frames; and processing the cropped images at an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS).