US Patent Issued to SUBARU on March 25 for "Vehicle position information acquisition device, vehicle position information acquisition system, and vehicle position information acquisition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,587, issued on March 25, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle position information acquisition device, vehicle position information acquisition system, and vehicle position information acquisition method" was invented by Keisuke Motegi (Tokyo) and Shingo Ugajin (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle position information acquisition device includes: a position information detector that detects position information of a vehicle; a map data storage that stores a feature type of a feature on a map and a position data group in association with each other; an imaging unit that images a region ahead of the vehicle; a fea...