ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,804, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle parking assist apparatus" was invented by Yu Hiei (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a camera image when the vehicle stops by a non-determined parking lot and acquires feature points of a ground of an entrance of the non-determined parking lot as non-compared entrance feature points from the camera image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines whether the non-determined parking lot is a registered parking lot by comparing information on the non-compared entrance feature points with re...