US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Sept. 30 for "Obstacle detection device, obstacle detection method, and obstacle detection computer program product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,583, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Obstacle detection device, obstacle detection method, and obstacle detection computer program product" was invented by Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa Ken, Japan) and Seisuke Yamada (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle detection device is configured to evaluate a ghost likelihood of a detection point to be high when a movement pattern of the detection point does not match a movement pattern of a detection point when a received carrier wave is a reflected wave from an obstacle, when the movement pattern of the detec...