US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,829, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus" was invented by Yoshiyuki Tadokoro (Toyota, Japan), Shinichi Takeuchi (Toyota, Japan), Shingo Noritake (Owariasahi, Japan), Akira Murakami (Kasugai, Japan), Ryo Yanagawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Yutaka Kuwajima (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute processing for converting a red green blue (RGB) format in which colors of a first reference image not including liquid leakage are expressed into a hue saturation value (HSV) format, and for extracting a se...