US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Nov. 18 for "Information processing method, and information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,719, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Information processing method, and information processing device" was invented by Takashi Ikegami (Kanagawa, Japan), Haruo Matsuo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masanobu Nagase (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method and an information processing device assign attribute information to each ranging point based on an image obtained by capturing an image of surroundings of a vehicle using an imaging unit, or based on point cloud data related to ranging points around the vehicle generated by a sensor, calculate a distance fro...