ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,616, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image capturing system" was invented by Tsukasa Fujita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing system enabling rear monitoring of vehicle and cargo bed monitoring by one image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing apparatus disposed in a vehicle provided with a cargo area; and a display image generation unit configured to output image data generated by the image capturing apparatus to an image display unit, wherein the image capturing apparatus is disposed in such a manner that a first region in the rear of the vehicle and a second region inc...