US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on June 23 for "Outside recognition system, vehicle controller, travel path recognition method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,789, issued on June 23, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Outside recognition system, vehicle controller, travel path recognition method, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Amano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel path recognizer 5 includes: a classifier 50 that classifies photographic objects in a front scene image, and generates an edge image; a parallel edge extractor 51 that extracts an own vehicle division line edge and a plurality of parallel edges from the edge image; a feature ratio parameter calculator 52 that calculates a value of a feature ratio parameter correlated to a feature ratio betw...