ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,147, issued on May 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle display device" was invented by Hitoshi Kumon (Aichi-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display device includes a display control unit that is configured to: display markers in positions, on a display unit, corresponding to future positions of a host vehicle which are acquired from an autonomous driving control unit that autonomously drives the host vehicle, and move display positions of the markers on the display unit in accordance with travel of the host vehicle and toward a reference position on the display unit corresponding to t...