US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 28 for "Determining road types with imaging and non-imaging determination measures" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,270, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Determining road types with imaging and non-imaging determination measures" was invented by Hayato Shirai (Tagata-gun, Japan), Takashi Nishikiori (Numazu, Japan), Sui Kurihashi (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of an outside of a host vehicle to generate an image and a control device. The control device is configured to determine a road type of a road on which the host vehicle is traveling by recognizing a specific object in ...