ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,861, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Autostereoscopic campfire display" was invented by Thomas A. Seder (Fraser, Mich.), Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Tzvi Philipp (Bet Shemesh, Israel) and Manoj Sharma (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a floating image for a passenger within a vehicle includes a passenger monitoring system adapted to monitor the position of the passenger's head and eyes, a compute engine in communication with the passenger monitoring system and adapted to calculate a holographic image and encode the holographic image onto...