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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Alpine Electronics, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshihiro Katsuyama, Iwaki, JP;

Hideki Sakamoto, Iwaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00825 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2352 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); H04N 5/265 (2013.01); B60R 2300/30 (2013.01); B60R 2300/303 (2013.01); B60R 2300/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

When it is possible to capture a plurality of light sources as images of a plurality of separated light sources with a gain within a range for each of the ranges of mutually different gains, images captured with the maximum gains among the gains that enables the capturing as the images of the plurality of light sources, that is, images captured to be the brightest is generated as use images (a, b, and c). Then, an image d, obtained by combining only the use images (a and b) in which the plurality of light sources is successfully captured as the images of the plurality of separated light sources among the generated use images, is displayed on a display.


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