ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,303, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Apparatus, method, and computer program for generating map" was invented by Mamoru Tsukamoto (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a map includes a processor configured to detect road areas representing roads from a bird's-eye view image, detect skeletal lines of the road areas and detects individual branch points of the skeletal lines as candidates for the centers of intersections, detect candidate intersection areas for the respective candidates for the centers of intersections from the bird's-eye view image, and detec...