US Patent Issued to Faurecia Clarion Electronics on Feb. 11 for "Image recognizing device and image recognizing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,728, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Image recognizing device and image recognizing method" was invented by Akira Ohashi (Saitama, Japan) and Daisuke Fukuda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recognizing device includes an image storing portion, a cylindrical distortion correcting portion, a vertical edge extracting portion; a column candidate extracting portion, a pole candidate evaluating portion, a pole foot position setting portion, a movement distance acquiring portion, a detected distance difference calculating portion, and a pole identifying porti...