US Patent Issued to SPATIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Feb. 10 for "Feature data generation system, feature database update system, and feature data generation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,622, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SPATIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Feature data generation system, feature database update system, and feature data generation method" was invented by Tsutomu Nakajima (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a feature data generation system, an edge pattern indicating a boundary of a target feature existing around a vehicle is extracted from position data of a large number of measurement points surrounding the vehicle measured using a LIDAR technology, on the basis of image data of surroundings of the vehicle obtained by imaging so as to reduce the amoun...