US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, AISIN on Dec. 16 for "Device, method, and program for generating an overhead image around a vehicle relative to a target object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,970, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Device, method, and program for generating an overhead image around a vehicle relative to a target object" was invented by Fumiaki Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Takeshi Iijima (Tokyo), Osamu Takahata (Tokyo) and Kazuya Watanabe (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an image processing unit that generates an overhead image of a vehicle and its surroundings using a plurality of pieces of imaging data acquired by cameras in the vehicle, a display control unit that displays the overhead image, a touch panel, and a...