US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,988, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Osami Hashimoto (Mishima, Japan), Hiroki Tashima (Fujisawa, Japan), Toshihiko Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuma Toya (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Tazoe (Nagoya, Japan), Ryota Bingo (Nisshin, Japan) and Kosuke Sakakibara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device acquires a travel route to a destination, acquires a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite, the satellite image being an image of a place corresponding to the travel route, estima...