US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Sept. 22 for "Computing device, own-position estimating device, and map information generating method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,658, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Computing device, own-position estimating device, and map information generating method" was invented by Morihiko Sakano (Tokyo), Hideyuki Kume (Hitachinaka, Japan), Shigenori Hayase (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for map generation and vehicle position estimation. The device can generate a periphery map using environment information and movement information. The device can extract, from the periphery map, partial maps. The device can determine a coordinate conversion par...