US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 12 for "Device, method, and computer program for lane determination" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,424, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device, method, and computer program for lane determination" was invented by Yuhei Oi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for lane determination includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle region representing a target vehicle traveling in an area around a host vehicle from an image of the area around the host vehicle generated by a camera mounted on the host vehicle, and determine that the target vehicle is traveling on an adjacent lane next to a lane on which the host vehicle is traveling, in the case where the vehicle region t...