US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 7 for "Travel map creating apparatus, travel map creating method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,381, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Travel map creating apparatus, travel map creating method, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Motoyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel map creating apparatus includes a position sensor obtaining the positional relationship of an adjacent object relative to the apparatus; a floor map creator creating a floor map based on the positional relationship; a self-position calculator calculating the self-position on the floor map; a marker identifier identifying a marker; a marker position calculator c...