US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Obstacle detection apparatus, obstacle detection method, and obstacle detection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,302, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Obstacle detection apparatus, obstacle detection method, and obstacle detection program" was invented by Shusaku Shigemura (Kariya, Japan), Yuta Sakakibara (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Nakagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Motonari Obayashi (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an obstacle detection apparatus, the captured image of a vicinity of a vehicle from an imaging apparatus is acquired. A three-dimensional estimation image showing a three-dimensional position of a feature point in the captured image is generated, and a th...