ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,711, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI (Toyota, Japan).
"Object detection device" was invented by Yuusuke Yokoi (Kariya, Japan), Kazunori Nogi (Toyota, Japan) and Yuma Hoshikawa (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device detects objects around an own vehicle by fusing a plurality of pieces of target information obtained by detecting the objects as targets using a plurality of detection sensors with different detection accuracies, and includes a crowd determination unit that determines that a target other than a reference target detected in a prede...