ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,784, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system, movable apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium that include a driving control unit to control a traveling direction of a movable apparatus based on an output of a path calulation unit" was invented by Yoshinobu Iida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable apparatus including a rear image acquisition unit configured to acquire a rear image of the movable apparatus, a display unit to display the rear image from the rear image acquisition unit, and at least one processor or circuit configured to function as a path calculation ...