US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Drive recorder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,438, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive recorder" was invented by Hayato Mizuma (Tokyo), Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, Japan), Yuko Mizuno (Nagoya, Japan), Kohei Miwa (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Naoki Yamada (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive recorder mounted on a vehicle includes a camera and a processing device. When the processing device recognizes that a landmark appears in the image shot by the camera, the processing device performs a process of setting the shutter speed and shooting timing for taking a photo of the landmark based on the vehicle speed, and A proces...