ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,015, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan), Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is configured to generate a control command for controlling a movable body, using three-dimensional point cloud data about the movable body that is measured using a distance measurement device, the control device including: a range specification unit configured to specify a use range that is a range including only some of the three-dimensional point cloud data; and an estimation un...