US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Sept. 30 for "Detection system and detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,874, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Detection system and detection method" was invented by Manabu Yumine (Osaka, Japan), Shoji So (Osaka, Japan), Shigeru Furumiya (Osaka, Japan), Michihiro Yamagata (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Sonoda (Tokyo), Hiroshi Iwai (Osaka, Japan), Tomokuni Iijima (Osaka, Japan), Yoshimitsu Noguchi (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Yarino (Kyoto, Japan) and Yusuke Nihei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system includes: an obtainer that obtains image data generated based on an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from a detectio...