ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,719, issued on July 15, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Display apparatus" was invented by Masayoshi Michiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuto Ryugo (Tokyo), Kenji Okano (Aichi, Japan) and Yukiko Kanno (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar (12a) located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means (14) located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar (12a) detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left fr...