US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Map generation based on change points in satellite images" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,646, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Map generation based on change points in satellite images" was invented by Shoji Sakamoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kazumi Tsuchiya (Gotemba, Japan), Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, Japan), Takeshi Takemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Sagara (Nisshin, Japan) and Hideaki Shiraishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The map generation device includes a satellite image acquisition unit that acquires a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite, a change point determination unit that determines a change point of the satellite image with time based on the ...