US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Nov. 18 for "Driver assistance apparatus and vehicle, and recording medium containing computer program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,712, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance apparatus and vehicle, and recording medium containing computer program" was invented by Ikuo Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus configured to assist in driving to avoid collision with an object is configured to: detect a shadow of an object present in a blind spot region as viewed from a vehicle, on the basis of image data that captures a surrounding view around the vehicle; estimate a position of a light source that causes the shadow; and calculate a position, a direction of movement, and a speed of movement of the...