US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Device, method, and storage medium for detecting deceleration of preceding vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,957, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device, method, and storage medium for detecting deceleration of preceding vehicle" was invented by Kazuhiro Miyazato (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus of the present disclosure detects a preceding vehicle and a white dashed line provided at regular intervals along a road from an image captured by a monocular camera. In addition, the apparatus of the present disclosure acquires speed information of the host vehicle. Then, the apparatus of the present disclosure counts the number of white dashed lines included in the section from ...