US Patent Issued to PIONEER, PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS on Sept. 8 for "Estimation apparatus, estimation system, estimation method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,223, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo) and PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation apparatus, estimation system, estimation method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Kato (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first acquisition unit (110) acquires point cloud data at a plurality of timings obtained by a sensor mounted on a moving body. A second acquisition unit (130) acquires map information. The division unit (150) divides each point cloud data item acquired by the first acquisition unit (110) into a plurality of predetermined regions. The ratio value ...