US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Oct. 14 for "Crack detection device, crack detection method and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,773, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Crack detection device, crack detection method and computer readable medium" was invented by Mitsunobu Yoshida (Tokyo), Tadashiro Kondo (Tokyo) and Taichi Ishifuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a crack detection device (10), an image acquisition unit (21) acquires image data acquired by taking an image of a road surface from an oblique direction with respect to the road surface. An image classification unit (22) classifies image data acquired into an acceptable range with a resolution higher than a standard value, and an unacceptable range with a r...