ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,057, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Norio Tsuchida (Tokyo), Kohei Tochigi (Toyota, Japan) and Masahiko Adachi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus recognizes traffic conditions ahead of an own vehicle based on an image captured by a camera that captures an area ahead of the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes a detection area setting unit and a selecting unit. The detection area setting unit sets a traffic light detection area in which a traffic light present ahead of ...