US Patent Issued to NEC on July 8 for "Object ranging apparatus, method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,292, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object ranging apparatus, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Yasunori Futatsugi (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Mishima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition unit recognizes an object included in an image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle. A first distance estimation unit estimates a distance between the vehicle and the recognized object based on the image. A second distance estimation unit estimates the distance between the vehicle and the recognized object based on the image by using an estimation method different from that of the first...