US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Characteristic estimation of a vehicle using slopes from images" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,558, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Characteristic estimation of a vehicle using slopes from images" was invented by Xintong Deng (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yufei Zhu (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Taro Tsukada (Nagaizumi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may include a processor. The computing system may include a memory having a set of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to obtain, from an imaging sensor, an image, determine isothermal lines on portions of the image...