US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and program thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,720, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and program thereof" was invented by Yusuke Fukui (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU of a vehicle control apparatus obtains, using a frontward PVM camera, front side target object information that includes information on a target object that is located in a blind angle detection area lateral to and outside of a target object detection area of a frontward camera. The ECU specifies, based on the front side target object information, a kind and a moving state of a blind angle target object, ...