US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Driving assistance device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,693, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Driving assistance device" was invented by Masakazu Nishijima (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance device comprises a pedestrian crossing detection unit that detects the pedestrian crossing length ahead of the host vehicle based on imaging information from a camera, a lane width acquisition unit that acquires the lane width of the own lane, and a driving assistance unit that calculates the reference pedestrian crossing length based on the lane width and performs driving assistance when the pedestrian crossing length is shor...