US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on June 23 for "Target monitoring device, target monitoring method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,674, issued on June 23, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Target monitoring device, target monitoring method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuta Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target monitoring device includes: a data acquiring unit, acquiring image data including a ship observed by an imaging sensor; an image recognizing unit, detecting a region of the ship included in the image data; a distance acquiring unit, acquiring a distance to the ship from an observation position detected by a sensor that is different from the imaging sensor; a course acquiring unit, acquiring a cour...