ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,462, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Display switching device, vehicle display system and automobile" was invented by Masayuki Shinohara (Kyoto, Japan), Yuto Mori (Kyoto, Japan), Gouo Kurata (Kyoto, Japan), Masao Mishina (Kyoto, Japan) and Yutaka Okayasu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display switching device (1) includes: a lens array (40); a display part (10), comprising pixel regions (31) disposed to include regions in which light in which respective light emitted from light sources (50) is condensed by respective lenses (41) of the lens array (40) passes through. A transmittance o...