US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 15 for "Image processing apparatus for estimating vehicle spatial motion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,721, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus for estimating vehicle spatial motion" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Masamitsu Tsuchiya (Wako, Japan) and Akira Kanehara (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that processes images acquired by a camera. In processing the images, a moving object may be recognized or identified from the images. Masking processing is performed on the moving object recognized in the image. An estimate of the spatial motion of the image processing apparatus relative to a surrounding environment is determined bas...