US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, AISIN on July 21 for "Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,388, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle control device, storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control, and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Seiya Ishiguro (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device has a processor configured to estimate an age of a driver based on a facial image representing a face of the driver of a vehicle, to calculate a distance between the vehicle and a moving object detected based on a front image, to determine whether or not the age of the driver is above a predetermined ...