ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,034, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Image processing device" was invented by Takeru Ninomiya (Tokyo) and Masayuki Takemura (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing device that, by performing highly accurate correction of a parallax error caused by a vertical offset between left and right cameras, makes it possible to accurately distinguish between a control object such as an object dropped on a road surface and road surface paint, and accurately detect a control object having a low step. The image processing device includes a specific region extr...