ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,780, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Device, method, and computer program for estimating seat position" was invented by Masayuki Yamazaki (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for estimating a seat position includes a processor configured to generate a mask image by masking a region representing a driver in a driver image representing the interior of a vehicle and generated by a camera while the driver is in the vehicle, generate one or more difference images based on the difference between the mask image and each of one or more reference images among which the position of a...