ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,083, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Distance estimation device" was invented by Kazuki Horiba (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a distance estimation device that estimates the distance from the vehicle to a traffic light. The distance estimation device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image captured by a camera for imaging the surroundings of the vehicle, a light size acquisition unit that acquires a light size of a light of the traffic light reflected in the image, and a distance estimation unit that estimates the distance from the vehi...