US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on April 7 for "Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,276, issued on April 7, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" was invented by Ryuta Tsuda (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus has: an acquiring section that acquires an infrared image capturing an image capturing area including a driver's seat of a vehicle; a determining section that determines whether a flared highlight has occurred in the infrared image in a case where it is not possible to recognize the driver in the infrared image, on the basis of whether a pixel value of a pixel of a portion capturing an image o...