ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,970, issued on July 22, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera, and video output method" was invented by Tetsuya Makita (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Goda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Gou Kaise (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera is configured to image at least part of surroundings of a vehicle body irradiated by a near-infrared light source attached to the vehicle body, and output a first video imaged. The vehicular camera includes: an illuminance sensor is configured to detect an illuminance of the least part of the surroundings of the vehicle body; and an ou...