ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,966, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Moving apparatus and moving apparatus control method" was invented by Ryoichi Tsuzaki (Tokyo), Noriaki Takasugi (Tokyo) and Toshimitsu Kai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data processing unit that analyzes detection information of a visual sensor and determines a movement route of the moving apparatus, and the data processing unit generates traveling surface shape data such as three-dimensional point cloud data that enables analysis of a shape of a traveling surface of the moving apparatus. The data processing unit selects a generation target regio...