US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Sept. 15 for "Radar apparatus and point cloud generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,625, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Radar apparatus and point cloud generation method" was invented by Hidekuni Yomo (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Yui (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Kishigami (Tokyo) and Noriaki Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar apparatus includes signal processing circuitry, which, in operation, generates point cloud data for each frame based on a reflection wave signal resulting from a radar signal reflected by an object; extracting circuitry, which, in operation, extracts a first point cloud corresponding to a stationary object from the po...