US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Kurusugawa Computer on Nov. 4 for "Model generation method, model generation apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, mobile object posture estimation method, and mobile object posture estimation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,576, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Kurusugawa Computer Inc. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Model generation method, model generation apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, mobile object posture estimation method, and mobile object posture estimation apparatus" was invented by Aya Hamajima (Sunto-gun, Japan), Yusuke Nakano (Nagoya, Japan), Katsunori Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan) and Youhei Yamaguchi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model generation method includes specifying image coordinates that fall within a two-dimensional image obtained by capturing at least a mobile object and that cor...