US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 25 for "Edge-assisted occlusion mitigation" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,362, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Edge-assisted occlusion mitigation" was invented by Yitao Chen (Tempe, Ariz.), Dawei Chen (Milpitas, Calif.), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Onur Altintas (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for removing vehicle induced line-of-sight occlusions. Such systems and methods may comprise: (1) obtaining an image frame captured by an image sensor in a vehicle, the image frame comprising an object in an environment surrounding the vehicle; (2) detecting an occlus...