ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,559, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Parking assistance device" was invented by Yoji Inui (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Furukawa (Kariya, Japan), Ryutaro Kato (Kariya, Japan) and Yuya Shimohira (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a parking assistance device including a captured image acquisition unit imaging a road surface around a vehicle and an end detector detecting an end of a ground object on the road surface within a detection area in the captured image. A position calculator calculates position information indicating a positional relationship of the end of the ground object. A boun...