ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,342, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"External environment recognition device" was invented by Shunsuke Katoh (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yuki Horita (Tokyo), Gabriel Daniel (Tokyo) and Hidehiro Toyoda (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external environment recognition device 101 estimates a blind spot region around a host vehicle based on information detected by a sensor that detects a target around the host vehicle. The external environment recognition device 101 includes a visibility index determination unit 121 that calculates a visibility index of the target based on a co...