US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 18 for "Positioning apparatus capable of measuring position of moving body using image capturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,592, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positioning apparatus capable of measuring position of moving body using image capturing apparatus" was invented by Tomohide Ishigami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first calculator calculates a relative position and a relative attitude of a vehicle based on images captured by an image capturing apparatus mounted on the vehicle. A second calculator extracts one marker from an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, and calculates an absolute position and an absolute attitude of the vehicle based on the...