MUMBAI, India, June 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411089660 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group AG on November 19, 2024, for System And Method For Fog Detection And Defogging On A Windshield.

Inventor includes Chaitanya Yechuri.

The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system (108) and method (400) for fog detection and defogging of a windshield (104). The method (400) includes receiving (402) a plurality of images of the windshield from a camera (106) and detecting (404) edges in the plurality of images. The method (400) further includes dilating (406) the plurality of images to enhance the detected edges and determining (408) a variance of the dilated plurality of images. The variance in dilated images indicates formation of fog on the windshield (104). Furthermore, the method (400) includes actuating (410) a defogger (110) based on the variance to defog the windshield (104).

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