US Patent Issued to DENSO TEN on Aug. 4 for "Image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,243, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Naoshi Kakita (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Kono (Kobe, Japan), Yuki Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan), Shota Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan) and Yasutaka Nishijima (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that identifies a light emitting state of a traffic light having a green light, a yellow light and a red light from a camera image includes a controller configured to: (i) detect, from the camera image, each of green pixels, yellow pixels, and red pixels of the green, yellow and red lights of the traffic light; (...