US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 30 for "Photograph acquisition and object identification method and apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,939, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Photograph acquisition and object identification method and apparatus" was invented by Ryo Igarashi (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, detecting a pointing motion made by an occupant of a vehicle and causing a photograph to be taken by a camera associated with the vehicle. The method also includes processing one or more of the photograph, a time the photograph was taken, location information of the vehicle at the time the photograph was taken, a photographing direction extending from the camera at the time the photograph was ...