ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,365, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automated parking control device" was invented by Hitoshi Niwa (Tokyo), Kentaro Nozu (Tokyo), Koyu Tani (Tokyo), Ryo Noto (Tokyo) and Naoki Mizusaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated parking control device includes: a surrounding environment recognition device that acquires surrounding environment information of a vehicle; a parking controller that searches for an available parking area, generate a target route to the available parking area, and control the vehicle to move along the target route; an image processor that estimate a distance to a three-dime...