US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Road type determination apparatus and driving assistance apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,818, issued on June 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Road type determination apparatus and driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Takatoshi Tosa (Kariya, Japan), Takayuki Kondoh (Kariya, Japan), Shin Tanaka (Numazu, Japan), Yuta Ikezawa (Susono, Japan) and Kazuhiro Morimoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a road type determination apparatus, an image information acquiring unit acquires image information in which an image of a travel road on which a vehicle is traveling is captured. A scene determining unit determines a traveling scene of the travel ...