US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 9 for "Focus-of-expansion locating device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,857, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Focus-of-expansion locating device" was invented by Takuma Suzuki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The focus-of-expansion locating device includes a loaded state determination unit and a focus-of-expansion locating unit. The loaded state determination unit determines whether the loaded state of the vehicle has changed based on the detection result from the in-vehicle sensor that detects the loaded state of the vehicle. The focus-of-expansion locating unit locates a focus of expansion on the captured image based on the captured image of t...