ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,819, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).
"Optical member" was invented by Masatoshi Tsuji (Nisshin, Japan) and Hiroshi Ando (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical member includes a light guide having: an incident surface on which an external scene light is incident from a blind area; a first reflecting surface that reflects light from the incident surface; and a second reflecting surface that reflects light reflected by the first reflecting surface. The optical member further includes a prism having: an e...