US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 26 for "Dirt detection system for vehicle-mounted camera and vehicle provided with the dirt detection system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,459, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Dirt detection system for vehicle-mounted camera and vehicle provided with the dirt detection system" was invented by Shinichi Okunishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a dirt detection system for detecting dirt adhering to a lens of a camera provided on an outer surface of a vehicle body of a vehicle to capture an image of surroundings of the vehicle body, the dirt detection system includes a controller configured to perform image processing to acquire desired information from the captured image obtained by the camera, and the controller is configured to ...