US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, ARITHMER on Sept. 8 for "Monitoring system and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,409, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ARITHMER INC. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring system and monitoring method" was invented by Masahiro Tasaka (Nisshin, Japan), Keizo Fukushima (Nagoya, Japan), Koichi Harada (Tokyo) and Masami Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system according to the present disclosure includes: an image acquiring section; a determining section; an area setting section; and a detecting section. The image acquiring section acquires images obtained by photographing left and right rear sides of a towing vehicle, respectively. The determining section determines whet...