US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Image extraction device, vehicle, image extraction system, image extraction method, and storage medium storing image extraction program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,678, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image extraction device, vehicle, image extraction system, image extraction method, and storage medium storing image extraction program" was invented by Junichiro Tamao (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroaki Nagase (Fujisawa, Japan), Hirotaka Nakayama (Toyota, Japan), Akihiro Motoda (Toyota, Japan) and Ryo Mizuno (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image extraction device includes a processor. The processor acquires footage of outside a vehicle captured by an image capture device onboard the vehicle, extracts from the footage plural extracted images that a...