US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle front recognition apparatus and vehicle control unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,124, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle front recognition apparatus and vehicle control unit" was invented by Hiroki Maniwa (Tokyo), Reo Harada (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Seiya Sato (Tokyo), Shigeki Mukai (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Wataru Munemura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle front recognition apparatus includes an imager that captures an image of an environment ahead of a vehicle on the road, an image analyzer that analyzes the image of the environment with artificial intelligence to segment the image areas of the image by classes to which objects captured in th...