US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting a hard point between roads and mapping an area" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,899, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for detecting a hard point between roads and mapping an area" was invented by Jose Felix Ladeia Rodrigues (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting a hard point between different roads using a sliding window for searching a raster representation of an area. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying road boundaries from a raster representation about different roads generated with vehicle data, the road boundaries including a left boundary and a rig...