US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 24 for "Visual guidance device, attention calling system, attention calling method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,862, issued on June 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Visual guidance device, attention calling system, attention calling method, and program" was invented by Masaki Maruyama (Wako, Japan), Toshiaki Seo (Wako, Japan), Minoru Higuchi (Wako, Japan) and Yuya Kishimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce a chance that the driver overlooks the object that should be seen, a visual guidance device for guiding a visual line of a driver of the vehicle to an object existing ahead of the vehicle includes an object recognition unit for recognizing the object, and a display control unit for causing the display d...