ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,709, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Information processing device" was invented by Chikage Kubo (Cyofu, Japan) and Kaori Yamada (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device capable of displaying a map by any one of a first display arrangement and a second display arrangement in which a display area on a screen of a display device is different. A control unit for executing switching between the first display arrangement and the second display arrangement based on a first operation performed by a user, and changing a scale of the map being displayed based on ...