US Patent Issued to MAXELL on July 1 for "Head up display" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. RE50,479, issued on July 1, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Head up display" was invented by Nozomu Shimoda (Kyoto, Japan), Yuji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan), Takeshi Arakawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Akio Misawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head up display superimposes a virtual image on an actual view in accordance with a traveling status of a vehicle. Vehicle information containing a lean of the vehicle in a pitch direction is detected by a first posture sensor, and a lean in a roll direction is detected by a second posture sensor. A controller controls display of video on the basis of the vehicle information. A mirror re...