US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 10 for "On-vehicle apparatus, road surface image transmission method, and recording medium storing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,261, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"On-vehicle apparatus, road surface image transmission method, and recording medium storing program" was invented by Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo), Shintaro Chiku (Tokyo), Yoko Tanaka (Tokyo), Yuki Tsuji (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo) and Natsumi Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-vehicle apparatus includes an abnormal section determination part that determines a road section having a road surface on which an abnormality is probably present, based on an output value of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, an image selection part that selects an im...