US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 8 for "Vehicle recognition system and vehicle recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,080, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle recognition system and vehicle recognition method" was invented by Kazuki Egashira (Susono, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan), Daisuke Kakuma (Susono, Japan), Yuhei Oka (Susono, Japan) and Tatsuya Sugano (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a recognition processing of a vehicle included in a camera image acquired by a camera installed in a closed space, the vehicle recognition system determines whether a shutter provided at an entrance/exit for a vehicle in the closed space is opened or not based on opening/closing informa...