ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,187, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to I-PRO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Surveillance camera" was invented by Seiji Nakano (Fukuoka, Japan), Hideaki Yamada (Fukuoka, Japan), Koji Abe (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hikaru Konishi (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveillance camera includes a first infrared irradiation portion that irradiates first infrared light, a second infrared irradiation portion that irradiates second infrared light having a narrower irradiation angle than the first infrared light, a camera body including an imaging lens for allowing light to be incident from an irradiation region of at least one of the first and ...