US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 4 for "Map system, map generating program, storage medium, on-vehicle apparatus, and server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,942, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Map system, map generating program, storage medium, on-vehicle apparatus, and server" was invented by Kentarou Shiota (Kariya, Japan), Naoki Nitanda (Kariya, Japan), Kazuma Ishigaki (Kariya, Japan) and Shinya Taguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map system includes a vehicle apparatus that is mounted to a vehicle. The map system includes an imaging apparatus, a server, and an integrating unit. The imaging apparatus captures an image of a surrounding area of the vehicle. The server generates a map using data that corresponds to feature points e...