US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 22 for "Control apparatus and control method using captured image of external environment of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,111, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus and control method using captured image of external environment of vehicle" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan) and Gakuyo Fujimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vehicle including an image capturing device periodically acquires an image of an external environment of the vehicle from the image capturing device and recognizes a target object in the external environment of the vehicle based on the acquired image. The apparatus controls setting of a predetermined region for the acquired image and performs ...