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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,593, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positioning system and moving body for measuring position of moving body using image capturing apparatus" was invented by Tsukasa Okada (Osaka, Japan), Ukyou Katsura (Osaka, Japan) and Tomohide Ishigami (Osaka, Japan).

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