US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Target detection apparatus and vehicle having the same mounted thereon" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,304, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Target detection apparatus and vehicle having the same mounted thereon" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan), Shoichi Hayasaka (Atsugi, Japan), Keisuke Hokai (Gotemba, Japan) and Takuya Migishima (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target detection apparatus is configured to recognize a stationary object present within a detection range of an external sensor based on map information. Next, the target detection apparatus is configured to determine, by checking an image of the stationary object detected by the external sensor against the...