US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS on Nov. 3 for "Parking-slot learning method and apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,467, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc. (Tokyo).

"Parking-slot learning method and apparatus" was invented by Shinya Nabatame (Kariya-city, Japan), Kenji Kaneko (Kariya-city, Japan), Masaya Takatsuji (Tokyo) and Suguru Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of an apparatus for learning a recognition rule of at least one parking slot around a vehicle is configured to execute learning program instructions to accordingly objectify at least one parking slot at least partly included in a learning image as an at least one objectifi...