US Patent Issued to WOVEN BY TOYOTA on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for estimating road edge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,389, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for estimating road edge" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Mamoru Tsukamoto (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating a road edge includes a processor configured to estimate a trajectory of a vehicle, estimate the position of an edge of a road from images generated during travel of the vehicle by a camera, identify an undetected section when an image from which the edge of the road is not detected was generated, determine whether the road in the undetected section has a ...