US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 19 for "Image processing method, apparatus, and program product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,042, issued on May 19, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image processing method, apparatus, and program product" was invented by Rie Habuta (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yuki Yamamoto (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of an image processing apparatus executes computer-program instructions to accordingly (i) define a three-dimensional virtual projection plane structure that includes a bottom plane parallel to a road surface and a wall plane raised to extend from an outer periphery of a bottom plane, (ii) determine a location of a virtual viewpoint above a ve...