ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,504, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Yuki Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan), Naoshi Kakita (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Kono (Kobe, Japan), Shota Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan) and Yasutaka Nishijima (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: (i) perform image recognition of a camera image to identify a signal region in which a traffic light exists in the camera image, the traffic light including an arrow light; (ii) identify a candidate region of the signal region, the candidate region satisfying (a) a first con...