US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 16 for "Rail detecting device and rail detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,612, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rail detecting device and rail detection method" was invented by Shunya Osawa (Tokyo) and Ryota Sekiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail detecting device includes: a starting-region rail-starting-point redesignating unit that shifts a starting region for detecting rails to set a modified starting region and designates modified starting points of two rails at the lower edge of the modified starting region when portions of the two rails are not detected based on rail segments in an image; a rail-candidate detecting unit that detects multiple lin...