ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,078, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Map creation/self-location estimation device" was invented by Hideyuki Kume (Tokyo), Yuichi Komoriya (Hitachinaka, Japan), Morihiko Sakano (Tokyo) and Hidehiro Toyoda (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a map creation/self-location estimation device capable of estimating a location/attitude of an ego vehicle with high accuracy. The map creation/self-location estimation device includes a map creation unit 110 that creates, from an output of a sensor, a map including a travelling location of an ego vehicle and a poi...