US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Oct. 7 for "Object detection device, object detection system, mobile object, and object detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,434, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Object detection device, object detection system, mobile object, and object detection method" was invented by Fuko Takano (Yokohama, Japan) and Kazumasa Akimoto (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of an object detection device is configured to search for a pair of coordinates associated with a target disparity in a second direction of a disparity map, update a first pair of coordinates to the found pair of coordinates, and calculate a height of an object corresponding to the target disparity on the basis of the first pair of coordinates. Th...