US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 18 for "Image transmission system and image transmission method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,853, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image transmission system and image transmission method" was invented by Daisuke Kikuchi (Yokohama, Japan), Wataru Kaku (Musashino, Japan), Aiko Sawado (Setagaya-ku, Japan), Mina Funazukuri (Sumida-ku, Japan) and Masayuki Shimizu (Shinjuku-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image transmission system executes the following five steps. The first step is acquiring a first image by capturing a first person present in a first area by a first camera. The second step is generating a first person silhouette image representing a silhouette of the first per...