US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Electronic inner mirror device, notification control method therefor, and notification control program therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,390, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electronic inner mirror device, notification control method therefor, and notification control program therefor" was invented by Naoki Kaneuchi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic inner mirror device comprising a camera installed at a rear portion of a vehicle to acquire an image behind the vehicle, an electronic inner mirror that has two operation modes of an electronic mirror mode in which it displays the image and an optical mirror mode in which it reflects an area behind the vehicle, and a raindrop removing device that removes ra...