ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,425, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Kazuya Watanabe (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device configured to assist a driver of a towing vehicle in vehicle operation includes: a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a periphery of the towing vehicle, the captured image captured by an image capture device of the towing vehicle; an overhead image generation unit configured to, based on the captured image, generate an overhead image from above onto the periphery of the towing vehicle; a point ca...