ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,303, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).
"External recognition device" was invented by Takahiro Sakai (Tokyo) and Morihiko Sakano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external recognition device that detects and tracks a moving object includes an object position detection unit that detects a position of the moving object as an observation value, based on an image; a region determination unit that determines a region to which the moving object belongs in the image, based on the observation value; an observation error setting unit that calculates an error to an observation valu...