US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 6 for "Processing apparatus and point cloud elimination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,508, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Processing apparatus and point cloud elimination method" was invented by Masayoshi Kuroda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kosuke Sakata (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a processing apparatus and a point cloud elimination method that can suppress point cloud processing load even if the number of points included in point clouds increases due to realization of high resolution of an apparatus that acquires point clouds of an object. The processing apparatus includes a memory (storage apparatus) and a processor. The memory stores data...