US Patent Issued to Maxell on Sept. 23 for "Augmented reality display device and augmented reality display method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,929, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Augmented reality display device and augmented reality display method" was invented by Osamu Kawamae (Kyoto, Japan) and Masuo Oku (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) display device includes a camera that captures a background image; a distance measuring sensor that measures a distance to a real object in the background image; a position and orientation sensor that detects the position of the camera and the shooting direction of the camera; a controller that recognizes the real object from the background image captured by the came...