US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 21 for "Traffic light recognizing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,956, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traffic light recognizing apparatus" was invented by Reo Ikeda (Tokyo) and Takahiro Furuya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic light recognizing apparatus includes: an imager configured to capture a color image of driving environment; a lighting region detector detecting a lighting region in a traffic light body on the image; a first lamp detector detecting a lamp in an ON state in the traffic light body based on the lighting region; a first search area setter setting search areas having the same dimensions as the lamp and horizontally and vertically aligned...