US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on May 26 for "Object detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,587, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Object detection device" was invented by Kimiyoshi Machii (Tokyo), Masayoshi Kuroda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kosuke Sakata (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an object detection device capable of improving efficiency while ensuring detection accuracy.An object detection device 1 includes a point cloud acquisition unit 201 that acquires point cloud data of an object according to a scanning result of a LiDAR 101, an object detection unit 204 that detects an object based on the point cloud data, and a reliability determination un...