US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Dec. 30 for "Imaging device, imaging method, recording medium, and mobile body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,418, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device, imaging method, recording medium, and mobile body" was invented by Gou Kaise (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomokazu Deki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a calculator, a white balance corrector, and a white balance corrector. The calculator calculates a white balance gain and an inverse gain on the basis of a first image. The white balance gain is used for correcting white balance. The inverse gain is a reciprocal number of the white balance gain. The white balance corrector corrects whit...