US Patent Issued to AISIN on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,461, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Ichiji Yamada (Kariya, Japan) and Akira Kato (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device including: an acquisition unit acquiring, from a camera that images a surrounding of a vehicle and inside of a vehicle compartment, a surrounding image of the vehicle and an image of an occupant in the vehicle compartment; a first estimation unit estimating vibration applied to the vehicle based on the surrounding image, the vibration including a vertical component; a second estimation unit estimating vibration of...