US Patent Issued to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS on Jan. 27 for "Data processing device and data processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,321, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Data processing device and data processing method" was invented by Yuki Matsushita (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device and method that detect a location and direction of a vehicle, recognize an action by an occupant of the vehicle in the form of pointing outside the vehicle, estimate a likely designated region indicated by the occupant that is based on the recognition results and the vehicle location, recognize a target object candidate from the designated region indicated by the occupant; and output in...