US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 25 for "Distance calculation apparatus and vehicle position estimation apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,581, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Distance calculation apparatus and vehicle position estimation apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Konishi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance calculation apparatus includes an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle, and a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform recognizing an object on the basis of a detection data detected by the in-vehicle detection unit, extracting feature points included in the detection data, recognizing a represen...