US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance apparatus processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,355, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance apparatus processing method" was invented by Yuko Yoshida (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance apparatus includes an entrance width acquisition unit configured to acquire an entrance width of a roundabout in front of the vehicle based on an image captured by a front camera of the vehicle, or position information and map information of the vehicle, an other vehicle passage time calculation unit configured to calculate a passage time when another vehicle traveling in the rou...