US Patent Issued to Furuno Electric on Dec. 30 for "Autonomous cruising system, navigational sign identifying method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,193, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Furuno Electric Co. Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Autonomous cruising system, navigational sign identifying method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yuichi Hara (Sakai, Japan) and Katsuo Yamada (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an autonomous cruising system capable of improving an accuracy of identifying description of a sign. The autonomous cruising system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a first image including a buoy from a camera installed in a ship. The processing circuitry identifies a pos...