US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on April 22 for "Blind spot display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,719, issued on April 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Blind spot display device" was invented by Kazuyuki Ishihara (Nisshin, Japan) and Hiroshi Ando (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blind spot display device displays an image of blind spot blocked by an obstacle, and includes an incidence surface, a light guide member, a first reflecting surface closed to a display region, a second reflecting surface close to the blind spot, and multiple prism portions protruding toward the display region. An external environment light ...