ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,690, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Line position estimation device, method, and program" was invented by Wenjing Cui (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Mishima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The area recognition image generation means 81 generates an area recognition image including a road area from an area recognition image which is a captured image of the front of a vehicle. The overhead view image generation means 82 generates a first overhead view image obtained by converting the generated area recognition image into an overhead view image. The line position estimation means 83 estimates a position of line mark...