ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,930, issued on June 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing device, vehicle, roadside unit, and information processing method" was invented by Koji Arata (Yokohama, Japan), Shigeto Hattori (Yokohama, Japan), Ryuichi Sawada (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hironobu Tanigawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an image interface, a sensor interface, and a controller. The image interface acquires a captured image from an imaging device. The sensor interface acquires a distance distribution from a distance measurement sensor that has a detection range that overlaps at lea...