US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Jan. 13 for "Contact object detection apparatus and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,028, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Contact object detection apparatus and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Hitoshi Niwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact object detection apparatus includes an on-road static object detector, a sonar sensor, a position estimator, a corrector, and a contact object determination unit. The on-road static object detector detects an on-road static object from an image of an environment behind a vehicle to calculate a position of the object. When the object is no longer detectable, the position estimator estimates a current position of the object bas...