US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 2 for "Mobile object evacuation path planning apparatus, method, and medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,538, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object evacuation path planning apparatus, method, and medium" was invented by Takuto Motoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that allow for appropriately pulling over to a safe road shoulder when an emergency occurs during automated driving. On the basis of distance information from a depth sensor or the like, a travelable region available for a vehicle to travel is set like an occupancy map, and image attribute information is generated f...