US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Nov. 4 for "Outside environment recognition device and outside environment recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,520, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Outside environment recognition device and outside environment recognition method" was invented by Hirofumi Ikoma (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Keiichiro Nagatsuka (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an outside environment recognition device that rapidly performs target recognition processing when there is a possibility that a target coming into contact with an own vehicle appears. There is provided an outside environment recognition device that recognizes a target. An arithmetic operation device includes a blind region edge d...