US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on March 31 for "Image processing device and in-vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,073, issued on March 31, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Image processing device and in-vehicle control device" was invented by Kazuya Kimita (Tokyo), Masato Imai (Tokyo), Naoyuki Tashiro (Tokyo) and Kota Irie (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes: an input unit that acquires each photographed image from a plurality of cameras installed in a vehicle; a photographing state detection unit that detects whether a malfunction has occurred in a photographing state of each of the photographed images; a likelihood calculation unit that calculates, for each of the ca...