US Patent Issued to AISIN on Dec. 2 for "Parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,599, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Parking assistance device" was invented by Yoji Inui (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Furukawa (Kariya, Japan), Ryutaro Kato (Kariya, Japan) and Yuya Shimohira (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device includes: a candidate line detection unit that detects a candidate line that is a candidate for a boundary line in image data obtained by imaging a periphery of a vehicle; and a boundary line recognition unit that executes a determination process to determine whether or not a difference in luminance between areas on an outside of the candidate lin...