US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,346, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Yuko Hiratsuka (Toyota, Japan), Yudai Sadakuni (Toyota, Japan), Kakeru Takahashi (Toyota, Japan) and Dai Tonuma (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance device includes a processor configured to detect an obstacle around a vehicle based on peripheral information of the vehicle; detect a line-of-sight direction of an occupant of the vehicle; estimate a visible range of the occupant based on the line-of-sight direction and a visual field information of the ...