US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 19 for "Apparatus and method for object detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,132, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for object detection" was invented by Takuya Fujiki (Edogawa-ku, Japan), Ryusuke Kuroda (Edogawa-ku, Japan), Tadashi Okubo (Machida, Japan), Kenichiro Aoki (Machida, Japan), Tetsuro Sugiura (Chofu, Japan), Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan) and Hitoshi Kamada (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for object detection detects a number of lanes included in a road on which a vehicle is traveling, detects one or more surrounding vehicles positioned in surroundings of the vehicle from a surrounding image showing the surro...