ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,079, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Control apparatus and control method" was invented by Takayoshi Moriyasu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a control apparatus, a reference point setting unit receives spatial coordinates of each of a first part, a second part, and a third part of a body of a user located in front of a display, identifies a midpoint between the spatial coordinates of the first part and the spatial coordinates of the second part, and sets a point on the display intersecting a virtual straight line passing through the midpoint identified a...