US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 15 for "Object recognition device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,723, issued on July 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Object recognition device" was invented by Masanari Takaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition device to be mounted to a vehicle includes a cluster point group formation unit and an object recognition unit. The cluster point group formation unit is configured to form a cluster point group by executing clustering for a plurality of reflecting points. The object recognition unit recognizes the cluster point group as an object. The object recognition unit is configured to, in response to determining that an outer shape of an upper ...