US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Server, vehicle detection system, and vehicle detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,147, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Server, vehicle detection system, and vehicle detection method" was invented by Yui Sugie (Nagoya, Japan), Koichi Suzuki (Miyoshi, Japan), Naoki Uenoyama (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroki Takeda (Okazaki, Japan), Hirohiko Morikawa (Toyota, Japan) and Genshi Kuno (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server includes a control unit. The control unit determines whether a parked vehicle is used as a shelter based on a first image which is included in an image captured by a camera and which is obtained by imaging the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle."

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