US Patent Issued to AISIN on Nov. 3 for "Map creation device, map creation method, and map creation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,254, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Map creation device, map creation method, and map creation program" was invented by Kazutaka Hayakawa (Kariya, Japan), Koki Ueda (Kariya, Japan) and Shoji Asai (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map creation device including an odometry information calculator calculating odometry information indicating an amount of movement of a vehicle; an initial value calculator calculating, from the odometry information, an initial value of a homography matrix between images obtained by an in-vehicle camera photographing different locations; and an optimal value cal...