US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 28 for "Image information acquisition apparatus, image information acquisition method, and image information acquisition program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,691, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Image information acquisition apparatus, image information acquisition method, and image information acquisition program" was invented by Sachiko Kojima (Kariya-city, Japan), Masato Nishikawa (Kariya-city, Japan) and Toshikazu Murao (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image information acquisition apparatus acquires image information based on a captured image of surroundings of a vehicle. The acquisition apparatus acquires whether a state of each of a plurality of cameras mounted in the vehicle is a normal state or an abnormal state. The acqu...