ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,009, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Positioning system and mobile object equipped therewith" was invented by Aman Jain (Wako, Japan) and Kentaro Yamada (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning system comprising a camera that captures an image is provided. The system identifies a destination position that is a three-dimensional position of a destination on a basis of the image including a person, and estimates three-dimensional positions of two key points of the person. In a case where an intersection between a line connecting the two key points and a ground is within a predetermined...