ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,881, issued on April 7, was assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Data processing device and data processing method" was invented by Takahiro Uemura (Saitama, Japan), Tatsuya Omura (Saitama, Japan), Yuki Matsushita (Saitama, Japan) and Keiichiro Yoshihara (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device for performing suitable feedback with regard to a pointing gesture of a vehicle occupant is provided. The occupant state recognition unit recognizes motion of an occupant of the vehicle pointing to outside the vehicle. The peripheral conditions acquisition unit acquires the periphe...