US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Feb. 11 for "Road surface detection device, object detection device, object detection system, mobile object, and object detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,743, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Road surface detection device, object detection device, object detection system, mobile object, and object detection method" was invented by Junya Kishimoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Kenji Kono (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes a processor. The processor acquires or generates a first disparity image generated on the basis of an output of a stereo camera mounted in a mobile object. In the first disparity image, pixels representing disparities are arranged on a two-dimensional plane formed by a first direction correspond...