ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,594, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Evaluation system, evaluation method, and program" was invented by Manabu Nagai (Nagoya, Japan), Suguru Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Yusuke Nakano (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation result determination unit determines, for each of the objects, a correct estimation result or one of a plurality of false estimation types, which indicate types of false estimation results using ground truth data that corresponds to a video image and output data indicating the result of the estimation made on the video image by the algorithm. The evaluat...