US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Feb. 3 for "Water area object detection system and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,822, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Water area object detection system and marine vessel" was invented by Takahiro Ishii (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water area object detection system includes a first imager to image an object around a hull, a second imager provided on the hull such that an imaging direction of the second imager is the same or substantially the same as an imaging direction of the first imager and operable to image the object around the hull, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to create a water area map around the hull based ...