ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,214, issued on Aug. 19, 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), Yasutaka Nishijima (Kobe, Japan) and Shota Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that identifies a lighting state of a traffic light having a green light, a yellow light, and a red light. The image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: (i) specify a traffic light region in an image acquired from an in-vehicle camera; (ii) detect green pixels, yellow pixels, and red pixel...