ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,302, issued on May 26, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Road boundary detection device, road boundary detection method, and road boundary detection program" was invented by Taiga Yoshida (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Yao (Tokyo), Naoki Ito (Tokyo) and Jun Shimamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road boundary detection device is a road boundary detection device that acquires a set of lines corresponding to a road boundary from point cloud data as road boundary information. The road boundary detection device includes: a candidate point detection unit that detects each point of road boundary candidates corresponding to candidates of a ro...