US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on May 27 for "Imaging system, driving assistance system, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,107, issued on May 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Imaging system, driving assistance system, and program" was invented by Kengo Akimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Koki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Koumura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driving assistance system includes an imaging device capable of capturing a first monochrome image in a vehicle traveling direction, a first neural network for segmentation processing, a second neural network for depth estimation processing, a determination portion determining a center of a portion cut off from the first monochrome imag...