US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 28 for "Vehicle apparatus, method, and storage medium for human approach detection with user image authentication" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,739, issued on July 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle apparatus, method, and storage medium for human approach detection with user image authentication" was invented by Mitsunori Nishino (Tokyo), Ryo Morosawa (Tokyo) and Seonghun Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes: an approach detection section configured to detect a person around a vehicle by a sensing apparatus mounted on the vehicle; an authentication section configured to authenticate, when the approach detection section detects a person, the person detected by the approach detection section as a user of the veh...