ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,272, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Map generation apparatus" was invented by Yuki Okuma (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map generation apparatus including a division line detection part, a feature point detection part and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform generating a first map including position information of the division line detected by the division line detection part, generating a second map including position information of the feature points detected by the feature point detection part, and determining whether a position of the division line has cha...