US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 3 for "Object detection device, object detection method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,892, issued on June 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Object detection device, object detection method and program" was invented by Naohiro Fujiwara (Kariya, Japan) and Makoto Ohkado (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes an azimuth sensor that measures an azimuth region of an object that is present around a vehicle, a plurality of distance sensors each of which measures a distance to the object, and an object determination section that calculates arcs of circles whose radii are the distances measured by the respective distance sensors and calculates intersection points of a ta...