US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Information processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,659, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Ryo Neyama (Toyota, Japan) and Katsuya Taguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for extracting a difference between a reference map and an input map, the information processing device comprising: a control unit that divides each region of a reference map and an input map into a branch region where a branch of a road or a lane exists, and a non-branch region other than the branch region; determine a branch region and a non-branch region of the input map corresponding to th...