US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Apparatus and method for distance estimation" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,845, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for distance estimation" was invented by Tadashi Okubo (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for distance estimation identifies a first partial region from a first surrounding image generated at a first point of time by a first camera, generates an interpolated second surrounding image corresponding to the first point of time by using a preceding second surrounding image and the succeeding second surrounding image, and estimates an interpolated position of the second camera corresponding to the first point of time. T...