US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for detecting a soft point on a road using a hard point" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,415, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for detecting a soft point on a road using a hard point" was invented by Jose Felix Ladeia Rodrigues (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to detecting a soft point on a road starting from a hard point using a sliding window for searching a rasterized representation. A method may include identifying a hard point using rasterized data of a road derived from vehicle data. The method can also include searching a rasterized representation of the road using a sliding window along lane boundaries starting...