ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,521, issued on May 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Image registration apparatus, image generation system, image registration method, and image registration program product" was invented by Akihiro Tsukada (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image registration apparatus is communicably connected with a distance measuring sensor and a camera. The image registration apparatus is configured to: acquire a reflected light image, which includes distance information, and a background light image from the distance measuring sensor; acquire a camera image from the camera; and execute an image registration to the ...