ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,211, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Target recognition device" was invented by Masanari Takaki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target recognition device includes a roadside object determination unit, a coordinate calculation unit, a road boundary estimation unit, a distance calculation unit, and a likelihood increasing unit. The roadside object determination unit determines whether a target has a feature of a roadside object. The coordinate calculation unit calculates a coordinate in a lateral direction of the target. The road boundary estimation unit estimates a road boundary. The di...