ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,732, issued on April 1, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging and display system" was invented by Yoshiteru Mino (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Masaki Tada (Osaka, Japan), Toshiya Mori (Osaka, Japan), Hiroaki Okayama (Nara, Japan) and Kazuhiro Minami (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging and display system includes: a display; an optical system including a first mirror and a second mirror; a housing; a light-transmissive cover transparent to light and disposed to cover at least part of an opening of the housing; and a driver monitoring camera supported by a ...