US Patent Issued to AISIN on June 17 for "Obstacle detection device, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,573, issued on June 17, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Obstacle detection device, and method" was invented by Kosuke Tsukao (Kariya, Japan), Nobuyasu Miwa (Kariya, Japan) and Tatsuma Fujita (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle detection device includes: an ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit detecting at least a distance to an obstacle among the distance and a shape of the obstacle based on an output of an ultrasonic sensor, the ultrasonic sensor being disposed on a door of a vehicle and detecting the distance within a predetermined detection range by an ultrasonic wave; a camera image process...