US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on March 24 for "State estimation device and state estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,747, issued on March 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"State estimation device and state estimation method" was invented by Nobuaki Matsudaira (Nisshin, Japan) and Hui Xu (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By a state estimation device or a state estimation method, image data is read, a feature point included in the image data is extracted, the feature point is tracked, a position, a velocity, or an attitude of a mobile object is calculated based on inertia data, and a bias error of an inertial measurement unit is ...