ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,428, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Chenyu Wang (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device recognizes a border of a traveling area of a vehicle based on image data acquired when a camera photographs a forward view of the vehicle, and performs at least one of a departure alarm and a departure control when the vehicle is predicted to depart from a reference line set based on the border or when the vehicle has departed from the border. Furthermore, the vehicle control device determines whether a particular registered three-dimen...