ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,712, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Aihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Koyo Usami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayoshi Michiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes: an imaging sensor including a first pixel region having X1 pixels arranged in a first direction and Y1 pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction; an optical system including at least one lens and having an optical axis intersecting the first pixel region; and a memory configured to...