ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,915, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Naoshi Kakita (Kobe, Japan), Yuki Matsumoto (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 the camera image to identify a signal region in which a traffic light exists in the camera image; (ii) divide the signal region into a plurality of sub-regions; (iii) calculate a first representative pixel value related to a color component f...