US Patent Issued to Hitachi on July 15 for "Object recognition device and object recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,975, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition device and object recognition method" was invented by Cong Chen (Tokyo), Masayuki Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Yusuke Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem to be solved by the invention is to accurately detect a distant object while preventing an increase in cost. An object recognition device includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire a plurality of thermal images having an object captured therein; a stereo matching unit configured to perform stereo matching using the plurality of thermal images and calculate a distance to the object;...