US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,194, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, vehicle lamp" was invented by Kenichi Hoshi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryo Ota (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device irradiates a field of view with pulsed illumination light. A camera controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of an image sensor. An image processing device generates a composite image by synthesizing a plurality of slice images output from the image sensor. The image processing device sets, as a valid image, a range tha...