ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,258, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Display control device, display control method, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program" was invented by Hideki Tsuda (Nagoya, Japan) and Toshinori Aoki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device installed in a vehicle and forming an AR image corresponding to a display target object at a position in front of the vehicle in a hypothetical display area set in front of the vehicle. The display control device causes the AR image to disappear from the hypothetical display area while being faded out when a first speci...