US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Sept. 1 for "Parking assistance apparatus, parking assistance method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium with parking assistance program recorded therein" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,626, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking assistance apparatus, parking assistance method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium with parking assistance program recorded therein" was invented by Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance apparatus includes: an image acquirer that acquires a camera image; a feature point detector that extracts feature points from the camera image; a feature point selector that selects a feature point to be registered on a map by evaluating the feature points in learning travel and ...