US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Position estimation device, position estimation system, and position estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,292, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Position estimation device, position estimation system, and position estimation 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: "A position estimation device that estimates a position of a moving object includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image including the moving object from an imaging device; a position calculation unit that calculates a local coordinate point that indicates the position of the moving object in a local coordinate system using the captured image; a t...