US Patent Issued to SOCIONEXT on Oct. 7 for "Image processing device, image processing method, program, and image processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,378, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing device, image processing method, program, and image processing system" was invented by Yuji Umezu (Yokohama, Japan), Soichi Hagiwara (Yokohama, Japan) and Junzo Sakurai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute: obtaining a first image captured by an imaging device installed on a mobile object; generating a second image in which brightness of a second area located below a first area of the first image in a vertical direction with respect to a traveling surfa...