ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,488, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Traveling environment recognition apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Namba (Tokyo), Masato Mizoguchi (Tokyo) and Hajime Oyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling environment recognition apparatus includes a camera, a first traveling environment recognition unit, a second traveling environment recognition unit, and an imaging mode switching unit. The first traveling environment recognition unit calculates the movement amount of a vehicle on the basis of an optical flow in an image captured by the camera. The second traveling environment recognition unit calcul...