ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,249, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Yusuke Uchida (Tokyo), Keisuke Inata (Tokyo), Masashi Takada (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Shinichi Nonaka (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to an image processing device performs a first layer matching processing for obtaining a first parallax in units of an image region of a first size by specifying an image block having the high similarity to a first image block provided in one of two images from a first search range based on a first predetermine...