ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,268, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driver assist system" was invented by Yuki Nakagawa (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assist system configured not to provide wrong information about a distance to an obstacle without using map data. A controller of the driver assist system comprises: a linear distance calculator that calculates a linear distance from to the obstacle; an estimator that estimates that an actual distance to the obstacle is different from the linear distance; and an information delivery inhibitor that inhibits provision of the information about a distance ...