US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 30 for "In-vehicle camera shield state determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,435, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"In-vehicle camera shield state determination device" was invented by Yutaka Tokunaga (Toyota, Japan), Yusuke Tatesumi (Seto, Japan) and Yuichi Kato (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an in-vehicle camera shield state determination device which determines a shield state of an external camera of a vehicle, the device determines whether or not shield is detected by image processing of a captured image, determines whether or not an object is close to the vehicle in an imaging direction of the external cam...