ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,618, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Work machine and processing device" was invented by Makoto Yamamura (Wako, Japan), Takamasa Udagawa (Wako, Japan) and Hiroto Takahashi (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled work machine that conducts work in a work area, comprising an imaging unit for capturing an image of a surrounding environment and a processing unit, wherein the processing unit performs a first process of detecting a predetermined object based on an imaging result, a second process of determining a degree of a backlight state in the imaging result, and a third process of...