ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,109, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Air floating video display apparatus" was invented by Takuya Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuhiko Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Katsuyuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air floating video display apparatus includes: a video display configured to display a video; a retroreflection plate; an imager; and a controller, a light flux reflected by the retroreflection plate forms an air floating video, the controller can set a virtual position of a 3D model, the video display displays a video, a video f...