US Patent Issued to PIONEER on Feb. 17 for "Notification apparatus, notification method, notification program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,477, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo).

"Notification apparatus, notification method, notification program, and recording medium" was invented by Kazuhiro Watanabe (Saitama, Japan) and Masao Nakane (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification apparatus includes an image obtaining unit and a notifying unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a surrounding image as an image of a surrounding of a moving body photographed from the moving body. The notifying unit notifies information regarding a type of an object when an object different from a predetermined feature appears in a first area where the p...