US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Feb. 17 for "Stop line recognition device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,390, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stop line recognition device" was invented by Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo) and Tetsuo Shiraishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stop line recognition device includes a driving environment information obtainer obtaining driving environment information; and a driving environment recognizer recognizing a driving environment. The driving environment recognizer includes: a stop line candidate detector detecting a stop line candidate from a luminance difference of a road surface; a stop line determiner determining whether the stop line candidate is a stop line; a section l...