US Patent Issued to STANLEY ELECTRIC on Jan. 20 for "Controller for lighting control, vehicle lamp system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,402, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Controller for lighting control, vehicle lamp system" was invented by Kenichi Saito (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Ueno (Tokyo), Sumihisa Furufuji (Tokyo) and Dianqi Song (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it possible to grasp the road surface condition more reliably when the road surface on which the irradiation pattern is formed is captured by a camera. A controller for lighting control installed in a vehicle that is equipped with a camera that captures the surroundings of the vehicle, a monitor that displays images captured by the camera, and an irradiation ...