US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 24 for "Autonomous driving system, autonomous driving method, and autonomous driving program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,591, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Autonomous driving system, autonomous driving method, and autonomous driving program" was invented by Hideaki Misawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving system includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an obstacle based on image data obtained by imaging a predetermined region including a road on which an autonomous vehicle travels, the imaging being performed by an imaging device installed at a specific location in the external environment of the autonomous vehicle, a feature quantity distribution creation unit configured t...