ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,146, issued on March 11, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"System and method for monitoring head-up display (HUD) for malfunction" was invented by Ramon Correa Jr. (Newberg, Ore.) and Christopher A. Keith (Wilsonville, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a head-up display (HUD) system including a display; a combiner; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to at least one image sensor of at least one tracking system and to the display. The at least one processor configured to: receive image data from one or more of the at least one image sensor, wherein the image data is (i) fo...