ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,582, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving support apparatus" was invented by Yuta Ikezawa (Toyota, Japan) and Kohei Tochigi (Sunto-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support apparatus comprises a sensor configured to acquire sensor information that is used to acquire a distance between a vehicle and an object, and a controller configured to execute a driving support control using a first distance, which is acquired by applying a first recognition method to the sensor information, representing a distance between the vehicle and a target object as a control distance. The first ...