US Patent Issued to Koito Manufacturing on Oct. 6 for "Attitude determining device, vehicle lamp system, attitude determining method, and calibration method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,429, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Attitude determining device, vehicle lamp system, attitude determining method, and calibration method" was invented by Hiroki Sumitani (Shizuoka, Japan) and Atsumi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attitude determining device outputs a notification signal if, in an image that an imaging device has captured of a predetermined attitude determining pattern formed by a light distribution variable lamp that illuminates a region ahead of a vehicle with light, a position of the attitude determining pattern in a direction about an optical axi...