ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,242, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Map evaluation apparatus" was invented by Yuki Okuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for evaluating the reliability of a map used in autonomous driving. The apparatus recognizes an external situation around a subject vehicle, stores recognition information including recognition results in the memory, and generates a map based on the recognition results. The apparatus calculates an evaluation reference value to be used for evaluation of the map based on the recognition information stored in the memory, and determines a reliability of the map base...