ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,246, issued on July 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus using common regions between images for luminance compensation" was invented by Masato Nishikawa (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an imaging apparatus, a common region identifier identifies a common region of each of a first image captured by a front monitor camera and a second image captured by a surrounding monitor camera. A difference calculator calculates a target luminance difference between the common region of the first image and the common region of the second image. A luminance adjuster performs, based on the tar...