ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,896, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Vehicle control device and vehicle control system" was invented by Takeshi Ito (Tokyo), Yuki Horita (Tokyo) and Masashi Seimiya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to improve the availability while ensuring safety relating to a vehicle control system that performs driving assistance and automated driving in a backlight environment. The vehicle control device configured to be mounted on a vehicle according to the invention includes a sun position calculation unit configured to calculate position information of the sun at ...