ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,150, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Data transmitter and method for data transmission" was invented by Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmitter is to be mounted on an autonomous driving vehicle. The data transmitter determines whether a confidence score indicating the degree of reliability of detection of the object from the area image is greater than a predetermined confidence score threshold; transmits, when the confidence score regarding the area image is greater than the confidence score threshold, the area image or a fac...