US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 12 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method for identifying exterior environment of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,501, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method for identifying exterior environment of vehicle" was invented by Daisuke Irie (Tokyo) and Shuichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enhance identification accuracy for the external environment of a movable object.Acquired is image data having an image feature (such as area, date and time, and weather) corresponding to a movement scene of the movable object. Learning with the image data is performed to acquire an inference DNN coefficient for identification of the external environment o...