US Patent Issued to AISIN on June 2 for "Obstacle information acquisition system technical field" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,539, issued on June 2, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Obstacle information acquisition system technical field" was invented by Kunimitsu Fujita (Kariya, Japan), Toshinori Takeuchi (Kariya, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Nimura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a technique for acquiring information on an obstacle regardless of whether an operation of avoiding the obstacle has been performed. An obstacle information acquisition system includes an image obtaining part that obtains a shot image of a road on which a vehicle is traveling; an image recognizing part that detects an obstacle on a road and a l...