ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,384, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Air floating video display apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Toshinori Sugiyama (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact and portable air floating video display apparatus includes a housing that can be installed in a bottle holder in a vehicle. A video display apparatus, a beam splitter, a retroreflector, a retardation plate, and a plane mirror are provided in the housing. In the air floating video display apparatus, a video light of a specific polarized wave from the v...