US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Path planning apparatus and path plan correction method of path planning apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,674, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Path planning apparatus and path plan correction method of path planning apparatus" was invented by Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The path planning apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure generates a path plan of a host vehicle using a first deep learning model from a captured image of a vehicle-mounted camera. The path planning apparatus recognizes left and right lane lines forming a travelling lane of a host vehicle from an image captured by a vehicle-mounted camera, and corrects a path plan using a recog...