US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 9 for "Traffic sign recognition device and traffic sign recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,401, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref, Japan).

"Traffic sign recognition device and traffic sign recognition method" was invented by Kazuhiro Miyazato (Susono, Japan) and Toshiya Koyasu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic sign recognition device includes a storage device configured to store a camera image from a movable body and pieces of three-dimensional point group data, and a processor. The processor is configured to: estimate a relative position of the traffic sign candidate to the movable body; specify a set of three-dimensional point group data; ...