US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN on July 21 for "Object detecting device, object detecting method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,718, issued on July 21, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Object detecting device, object detecting method, and recording medium" was invented by Masaki Kanemaru (Tokyo), Tetsuro Okuyama (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshinao Kawai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detecting device includes: a first luminance obtainer and a distance obtainer that obtain a first luminance image and a depth image, respectively; a first clustering unit that generates a group that is a set of pixels taken as the same object in the depth image, and determines that the group is a cluster when a total number of ...