US Patent Issued to Koito Manufacturing on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle detecting device, light distribution controlling device, and vehicle detecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,872, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle detecting device, light distribution controlling device, and vehicle detecting method" was invented by Takuya Kataoka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroki Sumitani (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle detecting device performs a process of detecting a front vehicle using an image that is based on an imaging device provided in a vehicle, and in accordance with a change in an angle of tilt of the vehicle's right-left axis, modifies an imaging region of the imaging device so as to mitigate a shift in the imaging region caused by the change....