ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,868, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control system and control method" was invented by Keita Hayashi (Yokohama, Japan), Hirofumi Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Tadashi Ishiwata (Yokohama, Japan), Keiji Tsuchiya (Yokohama, Japan) and Yasufumi Nakaaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a control system, an image data acquisition unit acquires thermal image data from an infrared sensor. A statistical data generation unit generates statistical data about pixel values from the thermal image data. A calibration control unit controls, based on an environmental temperature, calibration ...