US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Feature detection device, feature detection method, and computer program for detecting feature" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,417, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Feature detection device, feature detection method, and computer program for detecting feature" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature detection device includes a processor configured to determine whether a vehicle is parked, based on at least one of the speed, steering angle, and shifter position of the vehicle; detect one or more predetermined features from a first image representing a first area around the vehicle in a section of road in which the vehicle is traveling, the first image being generated by a ...