US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Nov. 3 for "Map information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,158, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Map information processing device" was invented by Felipe Gomezcaballero (Tokyo), Hideaki Kido (Tokyo), Takashi Nomura (Tokyo) and Naoki Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a map information processing device which contributes to the improvement of high-precision map verification performance by generating road information for extracting a road area corresponding to a road and a demarcation line corresponding to a traffic lane from an aerial image, inferring the position of an occlusion which may cover the road, determining if the demar...