ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,749, issued on April 21, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Obstacle detection system for work vehicle" was invented by Takuya Iwase (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhisa Yokoyama (Osaka, Japan) and Shiro Sugita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The obstacle detection system for a work vehicle enables an obstacle, present in the surroundings of a work vehicle, to be accurately detected. This obstacle detection system for a work vehicle has: a plurality of imaging devices that take images of the surroundings of a work vehicle; and an image processing device that performs, according to a time division syst...