US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for identifying state of lighting" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,084, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for identifying state of lighting" was invented by Norimasa Kobori (Tokyo-to, Japan), Hitoshi Kamada (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yushi Nagata (Ichikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for identifying the state of lighting includes a processor configured to identify the states of lighting of a first lighting part and a second lighting part of a vehicle by inputting time-series images representing the vehicle into a classifier. The classifier includes a feature calculation part configured to calculate a f...