US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Ride support device, method, and computer program for supporting ride" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,567, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Ride support device, method, and computer program for supporting ride" was invented by Kenta Kumazaki (Bunkyo-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ride support device includes a processor configured to: detect behavior of a visually impaired user who is about to enter a vehicle, based on an image generated by a camera configured to be capable of taking a picture of an entrance position of the vehicle, determine whether the detected behavior satisfies a collision prediction condition that the user is predicted to collide with the vehicle, and ...