US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,891, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Masatoshi Hayashi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When there is a request to open the luggage compartment door, the ECU performs processing including the following steps: activating the back camera, acquiring a moving image, displaying the moving image on the display device, acquiring a still image, calculating the distance to the object in the image, stopping the operation of the luggage compartment door when the distance to the object is less than or equal to a threshold, stopping the display on the display device, an...