US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Anomaly detection device, anomaly detection method, and computer program for detecting anomalies" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,429, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Anomaly detection device, anomaly detection method, and computer program for detecting anomalies" was invented by Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anomaly detection device includes a processor configured to extract a feature indicating the condition of a road surface by inputting an image representing surroundings of a vehicle into a feature extractor that has been trained to extract the feature, detect an abnormal condition in which the vehicle is unable to travel normally, when the feature is outside a normal range that i...