ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,473, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Object detection apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Hayashi (Susono, Japan), Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan) and Sadayuki Abe (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object detection apparatus detects an object target by using the LIDAR and the camera. The object detection apparatus includes a calibration processing unit that is configured to perform calibration of the LIDAR and the camera. The LIDAR includes a light reception element configured to receive reflection light of irradiated laser light and reflection light of ambient light which is ligh...