ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,025, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Object sensing device and object sensing method" was invented by Kosuke Sakata (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masayoshi Kuroda (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an object sensing device that classifies an observation point group output by a LiDAR into a real image and a mirror image when a road surface around an own vehicle is wet, and can use the mirror image for detecting the real image. An object sensing device that detects an object around a vehicle based on a point cloud data of an observ...