ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,370, issued on July 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Object detection device, object detection system, mobile object, and object detection method" was invented by Kazuyuki Ota (Ueda, Japan), Kazumasa Akimoto (Sagamihara, Japan), Kenji Kono (Yokohama, Japan), Junya Kishimoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Fuko Takano (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device is configured to execute a first process, a second process, and an object detection process (third and fourth processes). The first process estimates a shape of a road surface in a real space on the basis of a first disparity map. The first ...