ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,028, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Moving body support system and moving body support method" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan) and Tatsuya Sugano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving body support system supports a moving body that recognizes a marker arranged in a predetermined area. The moving body support system estimates brightness at a position of the marker in the predetermined area without using an image captured by a camera mounted on the moving body. The moving body support system calculates a luminance correction value of an image including the ma...