US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on May 12 for "Observation device for estimating a distance to an observation target" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,393, issued on May 12, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Observation device for estimating a distance to an observation target" was invented by Toshinobu Fukuda (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An observation device 10 includes an imaging device 17, storage 18, an acquirer 19, and a controller 20. The imaging device 17 generates an image. The storage 18 stores distance information. The distance information is a relationship between an image position and information pertaining to distance. The acquirer 19 acquires position information pertaining to the spatial position of a moving body. When the distance dis...