ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,164, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle external detection device" was invented by Sora Honda (Tokyo) and Shinichi Okunishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle external detection device is provided. An imaging device and a radar device are mounted in a vehicle and configured to detect a rear lateral side of the vehicle. Detection regions of the imaging device and the radar device are overlapped with each other. The vehicle external detection device includes an imaging occlusion occurrence detection device and a correction device. The imaging occlusion occurrence detection device is c...