US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY on July 7 for "Headlight control device, headlight control system, and headlight control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,605, issued on July 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Headlight control device, headlight control system, and headlight control method" was invented by Genki Yamashita (Tokyo), Hiroshi Onodera (Tokyo), Hiroaki Murakami (Tokyo), Wataru Tsujita (Tokyo), Shotaro Miwa (Tokyo), Shinichi Harase (Tokyo), Ryotaro Ebara (Tokyo) and Satoru Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlight control device includes a saliency map generating unit to generate a saliency map indicating a gaze region that is a region easily gazed by a driver of a vehicle on the basis of an imaging signal indicating ahead of the vehi...