US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Image processing system for masking selected vehicles in image data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,826, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image processing system for masking selected vehicles in image data" was invented by Masahiro Mori (Nisshin, Japan) and Takahiro Fujita (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing system includes a processor that generates an image by performing image processing on moving image data in which a plurality of vehicles is shot. The processor classifies the vehicles into an object vehicle and another vehicle other than the object vehicle, based on license plate information in the moving image data, and generates the image by performing m...