US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 2 for "External environment recognition apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,335, issued on June 2, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"External environment recognition apparatus" was invented by Shunsuke Konishi (Wako, Japan), Ryota Okutsu (Tokyo), Hidetoshi Utsumi (Wako, Japan), Fumihiro Aoki (Wako, Japan) and Shuhei Masuoka (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external environment recognition apparatus includes an in-vehicle detector and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a surface of the road and a three-dimensional object on the road for each frame as the road surface information based on a three-dimensional point cloud data including dist...