ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,294, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Road curvature estimation device" was invented by Atsuhiro Hirata (Tokyo) and Atsuki Munakata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road curvature estimation device includes a camera device and a curvature calculation device. The camera device includes an image capturer and a boundary line estimator. The curvature calculation device includes a maximum curvature position detector, a focus position setter, and a focus position curvature calculator. The focus position curvature calculator is configured to compare a maximum curvature position detected by the maximum curvatu...