US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 22 for "In-vehicle camera, control apparatus and control method for in-vehicle camera, and in-vehicle camera system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,939, issued on July 22, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"In-vehicle camera, control apparatus and control method for in-vehicle camera, and in-vehicle camera system" was invented by Yutaro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Nakayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This in-vehicle camera includes an infrared light source capable of projecting infrared light, a camera unit including a lens unit and an imaging device unit and having a sensitivity to a wavelength of the infrared light, and a board on which the infrared light source and the camera unit are mounted."

The patent wa...