ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,404, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VIA Technologies Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Object detection device and confidence threshold adjustment method for object detection" was invented by Chung-Ching Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Shu-Cheng Chi (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Han Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device and a confidence threshold method adjustment method are provided. The object detection device includes an optical camera, multiple sensors, and a processor. The optical camera and sensors are used to respectively capture a real-time video and environmental val...