US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Control device for controlling safety device in vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,091, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for controlling safety device in vehicle" was invented by Atsushi Kobayashi (Kariya, Japan), Yoshiki Hayakawa (Kariya, Japan), Masumi Fukuman (Kariya, Japan), Akihiro Kida (Toyota, Japan) and Kunihiro Sugihara (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device to be applied to a vehicle equipped with an imaging device, a ranging device, and a safety device is configured to, based on moving-object detection information around the vehicle acquired from images captured by the imaging device, perform ...