US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Jan. 20 for "Image processing device and image processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,801, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Akira Eguchi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes: a region dividing unit that divides each of a plurality of captured images captured by an in-vehicle camera into a plurality of divided regions; a feature point detection unit that detects, as a feature point, a portion exceeding a threshold value for each of the divided regions; a threshold value setting unit that sets the threshold value for each of the divided regions so as to evenl...