US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 26 for "Traffic signal recognition device, traffic signal recognition method and vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,035, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Traffic signal recognition device, traffic signal recognition method and vehicle control device" was invented by Genki Kitahara (Kariya, Japan), Tomohito Terazawa (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhiko Mukai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic signal recognition device recognizes a traffic signal present around a vehicle. The device acquires a position of the vehicle, and acquires a position of the traffic signal registered in map data based on the acquired position of the vehicle. The device acquires a position of a lighting device detected using an imag...