US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 20 for "Image-based tire groove depth estimation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,279, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Image-based tire groove depth estimation device" was invented by Hisamasa Mori (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device for estimating tire groove depth includes a memory and a processor. The processor acquires an image of a tread of a tire installed at a vehicle and estimates a depth of a groove of the tire based on the image using a depth estimation model. The processor may also acquire a travel history of the vehicle and estimate groove depth based on the travel history. When a difference between the image-based and travel h...