US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Information processing device, storage medium storing computer program for information processing, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,336, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, storage medium storing computer program for information processing, and information processing method" was invented by Takashi Morimoto (Edogawa-ku Tokyo-to, Japan) and Ken Tanabe (Koto-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device has a processor configured to detect a vanishing point where two lane marking lines in a front image representing environment ahead of a vehicle intersect, to detect a moving direction of the vehicle from a predetermined reference location to the vanishing point ...