US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on March 11 for "Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,704, issued on March 11, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" was invented by Takeshi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Muku Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance method includes: detecting, from an image of surroundings of a vehicle, a first target object position; detecting a first image capturing situation when the image is captured; with respect to a second target object position of a target object detected from a past image of surroundings of a target parking position in a past, ret...