US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on April 21 for "Posture estimation method, posture estimation device, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,178, issued on April 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Posture estimation method, posture estimation device, and vehicle" was invented by Yasushi Nakaoka (Shiojiri, Japan), Fumikazu Otani (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kentaro Yoda (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posture estimation method includes calculating a posture change amount of an object based on an output of an angular velocity sensor, predicting posture information of the object by using the posture change amount, adjusting error information in a manner of determining whether or not the output of the angular velocity sensor is within an effective range...