ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,782, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Kazuaki Nagoshi (Toyota, Japan), Hideaki Bunazawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Yugo Nishida (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to detect a road sign from an image taken by an in-vehicle camera and configured to calculate a reliability indicating a probability that the road sign is of a specific type, and a determination processing unit configured to determine presence or absence of the road sign of the specific type in the ima...