US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Detecting apparatus, position calculation system, and detecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,419, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Detecting apparatus, position calculation system, and detecting method" was invented by Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a detecting apparatus configured to detect a vehicle in a captured image, the vehicle is configured to move in a factory in which manufacturing steps are performed to manufacture and ship the vehicle, the vehicle is classified into states in accordance with an appearance of the vehicle, varying among the manufacturing steps. The detecting apparatus includes a first processo...