US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Control device of vehicle, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,716, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device of vehicle, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Morita (Mishima, Japan), Kuniaki Goto (Susono, Japan) and Satoshi Takeyasu (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device according to the present disclosure executes a process of acquiring an image captured by a camera provided in a vehicle and estimating an vehicle-to-vehicle distance and a relative speed with the preceding vehicle based on an image, a process of calculating a time to collision with respect to the preceding vehicle from the vehicle-t...