US Patent Issued to MAXELL on July 1 for "Road guidance system and mobile information terminal used in same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,334, issued on July 1, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Road guidance system and mobile information terminal used in same" was invented by Sadao Tsuruga (Kyoto, Japan), Tamotsu Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a road guidance using a Braille block, it has not been possible to determine a walking direction of a user only by a single Braille block. To solve the above problem, in a road guidance system including a mobile information terminal and a Braille block, the mobile information terminal includes a photographing processing unit, ...