US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 3 for "Movement amount estimation device, movement amount estimation method, movement amount estimation program, and movement amount estimation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,271, issued on March 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Movement amount estimation device, movement amount estimation method, movement amount estimation program, and movement amount estimation system" was invented by Kenichi Yoneji (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement amount estimation device includes an image acquiring unit and an estimation unit. The image acquiring unit is configured to acquire a reflected light image, a background light image, and a camera image. The reflected light image contains distance information obtained by emitting light and detecting the light reflected from an ...