US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 11 for "Apparatus for determining orientation and position of sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,458, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Apparatus for determining orientation and position of sensor" was invented by Kazuki Katou (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orientation-position determining device is provided which is used for a sensor installed in a vehicle. The orientation-position determining device includes an imaging unit and an orientation-position detector. The imaging unit works to obtain a ranging image and an ambient light image from the sensor. The ranging image represents a distance to a target lying in a light emission region to which light is emitted from the sensor. ...