US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Information processing device and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,699, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and method" was invented by Yuya Urayama (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining whether a predetermined event has occurred based on a captured image including a predetermined location captured by an in-vehicle camera of one or more first vehicles; and determining that the predetermined event has occurred. The information processing device includes a control unit that, when determined, causes a second vehicle located around a predetermined location to sound its horn. When determining that a predetermined event...