US Patent Issued to PIONEER, PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Information processing device, control method, program, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,359, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo) and PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, control method, program, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Kato (Saitama, Japan) and Masami Suzuki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller 13 of the in-vehicle device 1 acquires point cloud data outputted by a lidar 2. Then, the controller 13 generates processed point cloud data obtained by down-sampling the point cloud data. The controller 13 matches the processed point cloud data with voxel data VD which represents a position of an object with respect to ea...